If you have ever watched ants move, you might have noticed that they almost always walk in a neat line, one behind the other. While it may look like discipline or training, scientists say this pattern ...

As dozens of ants crawled up Jayme Necaise's arms, the entomologist braced for a bite. But the threat of a handful of escapees wasn't enough to distract his focus from the task at hand: transferring ...

When it comes to feeding the colony, ants work together to drag large food stuffs back home. On the other hand, when barricades get in the way of their path back home, how capable are ants of ...

Ants employ a few simple and flexible rules to ensure that moving a colony to a new nest does not end in chaos, especially if this is done over some distance. So says Thomas O'Shea-Wheller of the ...