The ants-on-stilts still moved their legs just fine, but because their legs were suddenly longer, they were taking giant strides instead of normal scurrying steps.

"Ants are one of the hot topics with our company," said Joey Sims, owner of the company, Sims Pest Control. "People go away on vacation and when they return, their kitchens may be wrapped up in ants.

A super-colony of ants has been discovered stretching thousands of miles from the Italian Riviera along the coastline to northwest Spain. It's the largest cooperative unit ever recorded, according ...

While native ants live and work within their ecological niche — for instance, California harvester ants aerate the soil with their seed-burying activities — Argies, as Dudley likes to call them, are ...

“Pesticides aren’t keeping them out, the weather is,” said Deborah Gordon, a Stanford biological sciences professor and author of the study. “These ants come into everyone’s homes at the ...

Q: I have a tenant in an apartment, and she has ants. The exterminator said they were "dirt" ants and he has baited the kitchen, where she sees them. However, it has been about a month and they ...

Whoever wrote “The ants go marching one by one” was gravely underestimating their numbers. Thousands by thousands is more like it by the time you discover them invading your space.And… ...

It's the weather that sends ants streaming into homes, and using pesticides, sprays and baits to keep the critters out is hopeless, a new Stanford University study concludes. The 18-month study ...

"Ants Go Marching" has long been considered a children's song, but its origins date back to the Civil War. Read the origins behind the song.

The approach of summer assures us an invasion of ants. Small and red or big and black, they will find a way in to your home. Outside, they can be a benefit to aerating the soil and composting dead ...

Here is why you’re finding ants indoors this rainy spring, and how to get rid of them, according to Whitworth. Why do ants go indoors when it rains?