Ants are emerging this spring, seeking food and shelter in homes. Experts share tips to prevent and treat infestations.

With an ant killer, you can help prevent these annoying pests from entering your home or overrunning the garden.

Ants are supremely social animals. They have an extraordinary ability to organize themselves and an inherent drive to ...

“There have been studies in labs that indicate coffee grounds can have some repellent effect on household ants, at least in ...

In humans, social complexity usually involves clear governance hierarchies, with leaders and middle managers directing our ...

There are 20 quadrillion ants on Earth —that’s 2.5 million ants for every human. Known ant species (members of the family ...

The invaders have overrun homes and jumped continents, employing tight family networks and singular group loyalty to achieve domination. Among a world of intricately diverse insect species, uniform ...

Here's what you need to know about the invasive Asian needle ant and how to protect yourself and your family.

In a fascinating new study, researchers explore the ability of ants to store excess fat and pass it to colony members through lipid-rich oral secretions or unfertilized eggs. For perennial organisms, ...

Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. Each is a set of interacting individuals, either neurons or ants, using simple chemical interactions that in the aggregate generate their ...