Ant bait gel, a mixture of glass cleaner and liquid detergent, and white vinegar can all help eliminate ants and discourage them from returning to your kitchen.

Treating fire ant mounds is difficult. Broadcast baiting targets colonies across the yard, including queens hidden deep ...

Scientists have long known that ant colonies sometimes seem to move as one. A nest that appears quiet can suddenly erupt into activity, with workers throughout the colony springing into motion almost ...

Ant colonies behave as 'superorganisms' rather than collections of individuals, a study from the University of Bristol has demonstrated. The study seeks to explain the behaviour of ant colonies as ...

Witness the fascinating process of ant colony construction in this time-lapse video, "eLapse." Over 54 hours, watch as ants transform a simple sand-filled container into an intricate nest, digging ...

A team of researchers led by James Waters of Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz. conducted a series of experiments designed to measure the components of ant metabolism, such as oxygen and carbon ...

This article is reposted from the old Wordpress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. An ant nest is sheltered, well defended and stocked with food, but one that takes time to build and protect.

The ant species Leptothorax acervorum is found throughout the Northern hemisphere. While many populations have multiple queens, a few have only one queen that reproduces. And in those societies, ...

Think of it as mathematics with a bite: Researchers at CU Boulder have uncovered the statistical rules that govern how gigantic colonies of fire ants form bridges, ladders and floating rafts. In the ...

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 ...