The color drained from Scott Fisher’s face when a member of the Maui Invasive Species Committee told him a little red fire ...

An ant’s life cycle starts as a tiny egg. It hatches into a larva which is like a small worm without eyes or legs. It grows quickly and depends on adult worker ants to feed it. These workers decide ...

How do spaces affect us, and animals? UCLA biologist Noa Pinter-Wollman had the idea that we can learn from the way animals use space, and, with several colleagues from the U.S., England and France, ...

A free information session about invasive fire ants will be held next week in the wake of their discovery in Bermuda. The event, organised by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, will ...

JANUARY 9TH. WBAL TV 11 NEWS INVESTIGATES HAS CONFIRMED A BALTIMORE COUNTY FIREFIGHTER IS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR WHILE AT A FIRE STATION. A FIRE UNION SPOKESPERSON, STEPHEN ...

A pesky pest has invaded Central Texas. The invasive tawny crazy ants form large colonies, taking out other species like fire ants, spiders and scorpions. Some Texas residents have reported spotting ...

The takeover relies on a chemical spray that masks the host queen’s scent as an enemy New study reveals a rare, sophisticated form of social parasitism with no benefit to the queen mother or her ...

Matthew Sparks receives funding from a PhD studentship through an EPSRC UKRI Doctoral Training Partnership between Swansea University and Rentokil Initial under the name 'Characterisation and ...

The scientist E.O. Wilson once wrote that ants are the most warlike of all animals. He said clashes between ant colonies could make great military clashes seem almost small by comparison. Sometimes, ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. The scientist E.O. Wilson once wrote that ants are the most warlike of all ...

Queens of some ant species have evolved an unusually hostile mode for colony takeover: they infiltrate colonies of other ant species and manipulate the worker ants into killing their own queen — their ...