The small industrious wood ant can do more than just build high nests in spruce forests. A newly published article in the ...

Ants secrete antibiotic substances and have a close relationship with bacteria that can combat various diseases according to ...

Ants are tiny so that it’s nearly impossible to keep them out of your house, says Bertone. But these tips can help: · Remove ...

For centuries we believed that only humans cultivated food on farms. But it turns out, we're not alone: leafcutter ants farm their food too!

Ant Identification The first step to getting rid of ants is to identify the type of ant you’re up against. “Different ant ...

These are “ant-plant” trees, which famously cooperate with fierce Azteca ants; the trees provide shelter and food to the ants, and in exchange the ants defend their leaves against herbivores.

This chapter introduces ant colony optimization as a method for computing minimum Steiner trees in graphs. Tree computation is achieved when multiple ants, starting out from different nodes in the ...