The usually aggressive harvester ants would park themselves near the nests of the much smaller cone ants. They just stayed ...

In the deserts of southeastern Arizona, harvester ants congregate with serrated jaws agape outside the nests of much smaller cone ants. However, the nests’ inhabitants are not threatened. Instead, ...

An international team of scientists from Queen Mary University of London, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Biology Centre ...

Scientists discover desert ants forming a rare cleaning partnership, challenging what we know about insect behavior and ...

After witnessing the interactions in an Arizona desert, a Smithsonian researcher suggests that the little ants picked off ...

Ants are known for many things. They fight, bite and sometimes compete for every crumb. We can now possibly add cleaning ...

Local outreach workers say they were unaware the family was struggling and would have provided food had they been asked ...

Warm spring weather is bringing more than sunshine to Central Georgia — it is also bringing out bugs, including some that can ...

Protect yourself and wildlife from the wrath of fire ants with these effective ways to get rid of them, and avoid common remedies that don't work.

Many of us think of bugs as creepy, wiggly little things that can bite, sting, eat plants and, in general, are a nuisance. Even the word “bug” is used in ...

A 1-year-old child died after a woman was accused of leaving six children home alone without food, forcing some to eat ...

Greater short-horned lizards shoot blood from their eyes — proving you really are what you eat, in the grossest way possible.