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

Mark Moffett, a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History, specializes in capturing the often-overlooked ...

Learn more about a newly observed insect behavior in which smaller ants clean larger ants.

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, ...

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

Banded Sugar Ant (Camponotus consobrinus) closeup isolated on white background, Banded sugar ants line up in a circle on isolated background, Group banded sugar ants line up in a circle© Kurit ...

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) has been found to play a significant role in controlling behavior critical to how ant colonies function, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at ...

In many animals, including ants, the blood-brain barrier (BBB) ensures normal brain function by controlling the movement of various substances in and out of the brain. Now, researchers have made the ...

Despite having identical genes, carpenter worker ants vary wildly in their behaviors and appearances. Major workers fight off predators and are bulkier than minor workers that gather food and tend to ...

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