Black fire ants are much less common in North Carolina, and are actually the nicer of the two species. One of the easiest ways to identify this species from their red brothers is by their ...

A worker of the fungus-farming ant species Cyphomyrmex cf. rimosus, collected in Mindo, Ecuador, in 2011, on its fungus garden Alex Wild. Agricultural ...

Extinct hell ant species used specialized jaws to impale its prey. A new 113-million-year-old ant fossil was discovered preserved in limestone in Brazil. By Laura Baisas.

Health officials are warning about increasing numbers of an invasive ant species in the southeastern United States. Fox Weather reports that the Asian needle ant, a species that was first ...

But a study by researchers reporting in the journal iScience on January 30 now finds that at least one species of rock ant doesn't walk randomly at all. Instead, their search combines systematic ...

A yeast-farming worker of the fungus-farming ant species collected in Mindo, Ecuador, in 2011. Colonies of ants began farming fungi when an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago.

Now, the unassuming-looking Indotyphlops braminus, or flowerpot blindsnake, has been recorded for the first time ever in Ecuador, according to an April 8 study published in the journal Check List.

A wandering spider (family Ctenidae) tucks into a katydid on the forest floor near Yasuní, Ecuador. Spider bites from this species are dangerous yet rarely fatal because of the small quantity of ...

Frank Sinatra famously sang that if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. And that's just what worries some scientists who have been studying a particular species of ant.

A new species of leaf litter frog was found in the mountains of Ecuador and had ... Hidden creature — with colored groin — discovered as new species in Ecuador. See ... fly larvae and ants.