Insects use a wax layer on their bodies to prevent water loss. Furthermore, they use the layer for communication. Although ...

I opened the door of the kitchen cupboard to get the peanut butter and saw an ant scampering away. I quickly dispatched the ant. Now I have a problem. If I tell Mary Alice about seeing an ant, she ...

You have to know your enemy—and accept that there’s no permanent solution.How is it that ants are always the heroes in children’s fables and movies, but when you find them in your kitchen in real life ...

Like many ant species, crazy ants are known to alert their sisters to the presence of large food items by laying odor trails: running erratically (hence their 'crazy' name), they touch the ground ...

In a video going viral on Instagram, a Zepto customer allegedly claims that she found ants in the Maggi she ordered from Zepto Cafe. For the unversed, Zepto Cafe is a quick-commerce food delivery ...

A wild female chimpanzee, carrying her offspring on her back, stands near an army ant nest hidden under fallen leaves in Dindefelo, Senegal. Camera trap image courtesy of Andreu Sánchez-Megías.

Researchers have discovered that in a foraging ant’s search for food, it will leave pheromone trails connecting its colony to multiple food sources when they are available, successfully creating ...

Most organisms forage, hunt, or use photosynthesis to get food, but around 50 million years ago — long before humans were around — ants began cultivating and growing their own food.

Once an ant detects a food source, it secretes a chemical trail to lead other ants to the source. Using computational simulations of ants searching for food, stochastic modeling and a system of ...