Deep inside an ant nest, some of the youngest members are primed to die for the group. When infection strikes, these baby ...

Insects are everywhere, crawling across sidewalks, hanging out in our gardens, and even invading our homes. Despite inhabiting nearly every corner of the planet, many of the most common insect species ...

When infected by a fungal disease, ant pupae actively emit a chemical cue that prompts workers to get rid of them for the ...

Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

Ants living in the soil of your plants are a problem that most people have experienced; however, these creatures do more than ...

An ant’s life cycle starts as a tiny egg. It hatches into a larva which is like a small worm without eyes or legs. It grows quickly and depends on adult worker ants to feed it. These workers decide ...

A sneaky, stealthy parasite queen can turn an ant colony against itself. Newly-mated queens of two parasitic ant species have been found to sneak into an ant colony, creep towards the resident ant ...

Q: I have leaf cutter ants attacking my crape myrtle for the fourth time. I’ve used poison at the entry to their nests, and it seems to work for two to three months. They really like this crape myrtle ...

A new exhibition at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn., gives visitors a whiff, from “chocolate-y” to stinky blue cheese. An acrobat ant tending a herd of sunflower aphids for honeydew.

We often wander to fancy restaurants and exotic dishes when we think of "gourmet" meals. But out in the wild, some of the most nutritious and surprisingly tasty foods come in small, unassuming ...

What's worse than an ant bite? A fire ant bite. Fire ants, as their name might suggest, are reddish insects with stingers and venom pouches that they may use to attack areas of exposed skin, according ...