An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

Invasive ant species are becoming a problem, however, with research showing that over 500 species of ants were found in countries where they aren’t native, having hopped a ride with humans ...

A team of biologists, neurologists and chemists at Indiana University has discovered why the velvet ant's sting is so painful to so many different types of creatures. In their paper published in ...

Different materials produce different spectra ... It is possible — indeed, likely — that there are other species of velvet ants with ultrablack coloration. “Our preliminary findings revealed ...

A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

Both species are small in stature, but hundreds of their queen ants can inhabit a single nest ... The scientists applied the pheromones at 10 different dose levels on a small bead attached ...

There are only two animals capable of transporting an object so large that it can only be moved by cooperating: humans and ants. And not every species in the Formicidae family is capable of such a ...

In the study, Israeli researchers explored how two species — longhorn crazy ants ... make more complicated decisions by having different ants make different parts of each decision.