The black garden queen (Lasius niger) ant plays a crucial role in the survival and growth of her colony. As the sole ...

The black garden queen ant (Lasius niger) ensures colony survival by laying thousands of eggs after a single mating. Her diet, including honeydew, insects, and sometimes her own infected larvae ...

A trapjaw ant queen surrounded by her workers. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the ...

“The root of the problem is the queen. Baits are like a smart bomb which target the whole nest.” Ant social structure involves food sharing, so when the ants discover the bait, they’ll ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s good to be the queen—the ant queen, that is—because mating does wonders for her immune system. When exposure ...

Both species are small in stature, but hundreds of their queen ants can inhabit a single nest, enabling a colony to grow at an explosive rate. The invasive ants have entered human habitats ...

In the few weeks before the swarming event happens, you may see heaps of soil appearing above the nests. Ants live in a caste system, where individuals have specific jobs. The queen lays the eggs ...

CHILD #1:How would an ant be born? ADAM:How would an ant be born? Well inside a colony there's a queen, she's a really big ant and she lays all the eggs that produce all of the ants in the colony.

There are over one hundred trillion ants on earth, approximately 14,000 ants for every human. If you weighed every human and all the ants, the scales would balance. The resin of conifer trees ...

She has a passion for lifestyle top... The national average cost to hire an ant exterminator is about $250, though costs can range from $100 to $500. Ants are common insects all over the world ...

Each ant performs specific roles for the good of the group. There might be one queen or multiple queens, whose job is to reproduce. The rest of the ants are female workers, who are tasked with ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...