These are deep red rather than orange or yellow, and can give you a painful sting. They tend to live in small nests. Like the black ants, they have a taste for sugar and are active foragers, but are ...
Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. Ants started farming 66 million years ago in the aftermath of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, a new study suggests. Colonies of ants began ...
This reaches the peak of sophistication in the leafcutter ants, which cut foliage and return it to feed their fungi, which in turn form specialized growths that are harvested for food. But other ...