A study of fire ants suggests a “selfish” supergene influences body size, potentially giving some ants a better chance of ...

A group of genes may give some fire ants an advantage, increasing their chances of growing larger and potentially becoming ...

A major challenge for California growers is coming from an insect so small it is easy to miss: an invasive ant that shields some of the crop pests causing the most damage in citrus groves and ...

Deep in the Guiana Shield, the northernmost stretch of the Brazilian Amazon, a team of cytogeneticists has been peering into the cells of some of the rainforest's most unassuming architects: the ...

I have never been very interested in ants. They were small and innocuous, they all looked the same, and I never wondered about their hills, colonies, queens or movements. Until recently. Now I am in ...

STUTTGART, Germany, Sept. 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Q.ANT, the pioneer in commercial photonic computing, today debuted its open-source software development kit for photonic computing, making the ...

If you’ve ever spotted a neat little ant trail marching across your kitchen counter, you already know how fast a small problem can turn into a full household annoyance. Ants are persistent, organized, ...

Mark W. Moffett is an entomologist studying animal societies at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. A world war is raging at this very moment, with millions dying each week along ...

Seeing ants in your California kitchen? What about your bathroom or living room? You might have an ant infestation. “Ants are among the most prevalent pests” in households across the state, according ...

The parasitic fungi in the Cordyceps genus are a favorite subject of nature documentaries. They’ve also infiltrated popular culture via the zombie-apocalypse video game The Last of Us (2013) and its ...

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Ant parenting may have evolved from the same brain systems that once controlled hunger. Researchers found that two chemical signals push clonal raider ants toward either caring for larvae or leaving ...