Moles‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ may be small, but the damage they do to gardens and lawns can be quite significant. Most of the times their ...

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

Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said ...

Carpenter ants are twice as big as other types of black ants, which makes identification easy. If you have a carpenter ant ...

Analysis of 309 strains suggests that the genus Escovopsis originated about 56.9 million years ago, but did not begin ...

Scientists found that a fungus called Escovopsis living in ant nests has a long and surprising history. New research shows a ...

Insects are often tiny and easily overlooked, yet some pose serious threats to human health and life, either through venomous stings, aggressive behaviour, or disease transmission. Understanding which ...

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 survive because individuals are willing to die. New research shows that some of the most vulnerable members, ...

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.

Australians are being urged to collect free fire ant treatment kits from select Bunnings stores this weekend to help the fight against one of the country's most damaging pests.

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 ...