Here’s a fun (and creepy) fact: The Earth is home to approximately 20 quadrillion ants. To put zeroes on it, that’s around 20,000,000,000,000,000 of the six-legged insects living all around us. How ...

The rapid diversification of ants has “led to their role as ecological engineers” that can work in habitats across the world, ...

As part of Yahoo Finance's latest FA Corner segment, Farther Co-Founder and CTO Brad Genser explains to Julie Hyman the ...

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...

Backyard ants use ancient, targeted antimicrobial strategies that could inspire new ways to fight drug-resistant superbugs in humans.

Carpenter bees bore into a variety of wood sources. But, as they tunnel, do they eat the wood, or are they doing something else?

It grows quickly and depends on adult worker ants to feed it. These workers decide how much and what kind of food the larva ...

Has a crucial component to the development of human medicine been hiding under our feet? Auburn University Assistant ...

Research shows that some ants have learned how to treat their wounds, revealing one of the clearest examples of medical ...

Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 into a family of strivers in Queens, she split her time between her mother’s home in New York and her maternal grandparents’ in Wilmington, N.C. (She changed her ...

Carpenter ants are twice as big as other types of black ants, which makes identification easy. If you have a carpenter ant ...

As you first begin considering your approach, Warren has some suggestions.