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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giant African harvester ants - seen here in Kenya - are popular with hobby collectors around the world [Dino Martins] The ants are ...

Ant societies rely on precise recognition systems to maintain cooperation, but new research reveals that these systems are more adaptable than once believed. For ants, quickly telling friend from foe ...

Right now, Australia is undertaking the world’s largest removal of invasive ants. The goal: eradicate fire ants (Solenopsis invicta). These aggressive South American ants are named for the burning ...

A rare Japanese ant is the only species known to lack female workers and males; all of its young develop into parasitic queens that try to take over other colonies. When you purchase through links on ...

An ant that can turn carbon dioxide in the air into dolomite stone in its exoskeleton may hold clues to how humans can sequester greenhouse gases to avert climate disaster. Fungus-farming ants forage ...

Some butterfly species can’t grow unless they trick ants into taking them home with a complex rhythmic signal. By Rebecca Dzombak Rebecca Dzombak has reported on parasitic ant queens and the number of ...

This project is an educational and research-oriented implementation that benchmarks and compares different metaheuristic algorithms for solving VRPTW problems. The VRPTW is a classic NP-hard ...

Life may look like a paradise for beetles living in ant colonies. Plump, wriggling ant larvae and helpless eggs sit waiting to be devoured, while hundreds of thousands of ants stand at the ready to ...

Rove beetles cloak themselves in ant pheromones to sneak into the insects’ nests for protection. But in an odd catch-22, that makes them forever reliant on their hosts Sceptobius beetles groom ants to ...