It smells bad inside. "That's what it smells like when you keep ant colonies," Frank says. Carpenter ants, leaf-cutter ants and giant ants live in glass bowls and plastic boxes. They all do ...

Soldier ants guard the colony. They are very strong and will try to stop anything that attacks. Small worker ants collect the leaves and bring them back to the nest. And even smaller workers use ...

Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill — or mound, as it's properly called — looks impossibly small. And yet, a colony of up to 250,000 ants call it home. But here's the secret ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

Ants live in colonies which can have populations in their ... growing crops and keeping livestock. Leaf and grass cutter ants, as their names suggest, use leaf and grass cuttings to cultivate ...

breviceps are social insects that parasitize colonies of other social insects. These parasites are found throughout the social Hymenoptera (i.e., bees, wasps and ants), and have been most ...

When school resumes next week, eight Mound Westonka High School students will have a really good story to tell about what they did over summer vacation. They spent 10 days in Costa Rica wading ...

British artist and former Special Forces soldier, Bran, looks at his artwork called The Colony (2025), where leaf-cutting ants transport fragments of dollar bills across an AK-47 sculpture, on display ...