Tiny pharaoh ants slip through cracks, spread through walls and pipes, and can infest entire buildings—including hospitals ...

Moles can damage gardens and lawns. Your gardening practices might be attracting them. Overwatering, dense planting, and ...

Backyard ants use ancient, targeted antimicrobial strategies that could inspire new ways to fight drug-resistant superbugs in humans.

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Winter in southern Arizona may look calm outside, but around your home, pests remain active. Here’s what you should know to ...

Australia is at serious risk of losing its fight against its most formidable biosecurity threat, with a $2 billion fire ant disaster looming on the horizon. The invasive superpest’s terrifying ability ...

Ant colonies operate with such tight coordination that scientists often compare them to a single living organism, a “superorganism” in which thousands of ants function like the cells of a body. New ...

Ant pupae are unable to move, however, so they've developed a unique mechanism that leads them to sacrifice their own life for the betterment of the nest. Researchers in Austria have discovered that ...

Here we present melanic forms of ants belonging to the light-colored Neotropical species Heteroponera dolo (Ectatomminae) and Prionopelta punctulata (Amblyoponinae). We also discuss the intraspecific ...

Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said Tuesday, adding that queens do not seem to commit this act of self-sacrifice.

Pest control is an unfortunate reality for most homeowners, but these DIY tricks and hacks can prevent it from costing an arm ...