In Britain and Ireland, flying ant days typically occur in July or August, often in warmer urban areas first, when the ...

Once they’ve mated, the role of the male ants is over and they tend to die within a week. Female ants, uh, chew off their ...

Researchers thought colder temperatures and higher elevations could stop the march of invasive fire ants. Mother Nature had ...

The existence of ant colonies was a mystery even to the famous naturalist Charles Darwin. How could evolution produce workers ...

It has been dubbed Flying Ant Day and it wreaks havoc on Brits forced to swat away amorous swarms gathering for their annual ...

While commonly referred to as one specific day, the Royal Society of Biology found that there is no single day that ants fly ...

Virginia may have a new ally in the fight against one of the most invasive insects threatening trees, crops, and other ...

DEAR JOAN: What is the right time to remove a nest from a nest box after the nestlings have fledged? I removed an abandoned nest last year that had four unhatched bluebird eggs. A new family built ...

There are over 12,500 known ant species in the world, with new ant species still being discovered by scientists to this day.

When it gets warm, ants emerge from their nests and make themselves at home in our compost heaps. Alan Titchmarsh shares how ...