Fire ants bite and sting! They also use their own young to build a terrifying raft during floods. Kidnapper ants steal other ants’ babies. Honeypot ants turn their sisters into living jugs of nectar.

New research explores the surprising symbiotic relationship between tubers and different ant species at rainforest heights ...

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Forget fangs full of venom — the backsides of serpents pack secretions volatile enough to kill insect invaders.

As I drew a daily Bible verse card out of my stack to portray for the day, the verse that popped up seemed almost laughable ...

Squamellaria plants grow special structures to host the ants they symbiotically rely on for nutrients. Distinct compartments ...

Odd plants from a remote Pacific island reveal new insights into an important ecological question: how unrelated and ...

Two bits of amber discovered in a lab basement hold ancient evidence of a fungi famous for controlling the minds of its victims.

Insects use a wax layer on their bodies to prevent water loss. Furthermore, they use the layer for communication. Although ...

I opened the door of the kitchen cupboard to get the peanut butter and saw an ant scampering away. I quickly dispatched the ant. Now I have a problem. If I tell Mary Alice about seeing an ant, she ...

Life’s a lot better when you stay curious and open-minded about the world. That’s easier said than done, however. Adult ...

Ant genomes reveal how social insects evolved cooperation, preserved caste genes, and rewired chromosomes over 100 million ...