Almost wherever you go on Earth, you will find ants! The only places that do not have any are Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, ...

Ant foraging behaviour is a paradigmatic example of sophisticated social coordination in the animal kingdom. Central to their success is the use of chemical signals, particularly trail pheromones, ...

Ants who receive a caffeine-laced sugary reward become more efficient at navigating back to the reward’s location compared to ants that only receive sugar. Researchers report on May 23 in the journal ...

Researchers used miniature robots to mimic how real ants maneuver networks of their own. Credit: Simon Garnier, et al For ants, the pheromone-laden foraging trails they leave behind are like lifelines ...

Researchers report that in the absence of visible landmarks, desert ants increase the likelihood that foraging nest mates will find their way home quickly and safely by elevating their nest entrance.

Alone, an ant’s wandering search for food may not seem particularly shrewd. But together, the critters’ foraging strategies are a powerful search engine that could put those Google web crawlers to ...

Foraging parameters of two ant species, Pseudomyrmex triplarinus and Crematogaster sp., on P. triplarinus-occupied shrubs of Triplaris surinamensis were evaluated in a semideciduous forest of Mato ...

Argentine ants have been able to displace native ant species in large part because of their aggressive foraging for sugar and other carbohydrates. However, when they've been deprived of food and ...

"Once you introduce a species to a new place, anything can really happen." Scientists issue stark warning after harmful ...

This report examines patterns of competition and foraging dynamics among colonies of the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex californicus. Two components of harvesting efficiency are defined: total harvesting ...

In the forest, carpenter ants have a job to do, recycling woody debris, such as dead trees and fallen logs. But these large ants become nuisances when they forage or nest inside our homes. “Carpenter ...