A few months ago, I awoke to find a streak spanning the length of my kitchen wall that looked like it had been drawn there ...

Take a Pest Control Quiz. Get matched with an Authorized Partner. Carpenter ants are a common sight in many homes, but their presence often raises questions and concerns. In this article, we provide ...

A pile of genetically-related Argentine ants | Marc Matteo, Flickr // CC BY-NC 2.0 3. Argentine ants traveled the U.S. before settling down in California. Argentine ants arrived in the United States ...

Ants don't get distracted by social information when on the move, and only fully responding to it when at rest, a new study indicates. Such sporadic monitoring of the social environment may reduce ...

Figure 1: Pheromone trail networks of Pharaoh's ants on a smoked glass surface. Information inherent in trail bifurcations could be used by foragers to determine trail polarity. For example, ants ...

Worker ants can process information far more efficiently than Google, a new study claims. The researchers found that while an individual ant that is hunting for food walks a random path, their ...

When the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia last week presented its Leidy Medal to Dr. William Morton Wheeler, internationally famed zoologist, longtime Dean of the Bussey Institution for ...

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