Ants are pictured at the Metropolitan Natural Park, a protected area in Panama City, on January 26, 2025. Martin Bernetti / AFP via Getty Images Summer is a time for picnics and barbecues, but a few ...

Swarms of black ants farming mealybugs and aphids on plants, trees and fruit crops – damaging and killing vegetation as they feed – are increasingly alarming Rarotonga residents. In a two-part series, ...

Ants are supremely social animals. They have an extraordinary ability to organize themselves and an inherent drive to prioritize the needs of their colony over their own. Some ants have taken this to ...

Asian needle ants are an invasive species from East Asia that have been spreading across the southeastern United States. Their venomous sting can cause intense pain and, in some cases, ...

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In the Arizona desert, scientists have uncovered a bizarre and almost unbelievable partnership between ants: tiny cone ants acting as “cleaners” for much larger harvester ants. Instead of attacking, ...

Entomologist Mark Moffett photographed cone ants climbing onto and cleaning harvester ants. Mark Moffett, Minden Pictures Twenty years ago, entomologist Mark Moffett was in southeastern Arizona when ...

A unique “choreography” between two ant species suggests a distinctive partnership in which one provides a carwash service to the other. By Alexa Robles-Gil One June morning 20 years ago, Mark Moffett ...

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, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -On the heels of the Asian lantern fly exploding in population in Ohio, researchers are now keeping an eye out for the Asian needle ant. According to staff with the Ohio State ...