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We introduce you to the incredible exploding ant that lays down their life for the benefit of the colony in a spectacular way ...

The ant mounds on the heath, in the forest and in your garden are oases for life. The heat and nutrients from ant mounds make them the perfect home for unique plant and animal species, according to ...

South America has the most diverse wildlife of any continent, with an extremely high species count. And some of South America ...

Carpenter ants, which include more than a thousand species in the genus Camponotus, nest in wood and can be destructive to ...

You’ve probably never seen a Dracula ant, as these elusive insects spend their days tunneling through the leaf litter and soil of tropical forests in Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia, rarely ...

Crawling along the underbrush of the tropical savannas of Brazil, there’s a powerful and mysterious insect known as the velvet ant. Actually a kind of wasp, wingless females of this species ...

Researchers in Japan discovered that ants placed in isolation die younger due to an accumulation of reactive oxygen, a ...

It will lay down a pheromone trail that the other ants can follow back to the food source.” Like wasps and bees, ants are ...