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

Most ants have two morphologically differentiated adult castes -- queens and workers -- each irreversibly specialized for either reproduction or nonreproductive altruism such as foraging ...

Foraging for resources is an essential process for the daily life of an ant colony, and ants will self-organize using chemical pheromones. Once an ant detects a food source, it secretes a chemical ...

They are tiny insects that are often overlooked or stepped on, but ants are marching not only into people’s backyards, but also their homes, as the popularity of ant-keeping rises in Canada.

Regardless, it’s time to act fast. “Once a worker finds food, it takes it back to the nest to recruit the other ants,” says Eric Benson, PhD. “It will lay down a pheromone trail that the other ants ...