Ants navigate by using pheromone trails that worker ants deposit to guide colony members to food sources. Baby powder does a solid job of interfering with these communications in multiple ways.

Ants back at the nest rush to the injured and can tell which wounds are infected. They then secrete an antibiotic for them. An international team of researchers observed these ants closely and ...

Hybrid fire ants are bad news. Mother Nature has thrown a new wrinkle into the mix − a new hybrid ant that's a merger of the two invasive fire ant species that have reached U.S. shores.