Winged fire ant queens are capable of flying several kilometres at a time but can travel much further if blown by wind currents. Ants could become Australia's worst pest Australia's unique climate ...

This is a photograph of a Solenopsis invicta fire ant queen (large), five workers (smaller), one larva (whiteish) on a subset of the DNA sequence of their social chromosome. Disclaimer ...

Ant Identification The first step to getting rid of ants is to identify the type of ant you’re up against. “Different ant ...

Ant mothers are the queens of tough love. They simply don't have time to coddle their sick young. If a newly hatched black garden ant is exposed to a pathogen, researchers in the US have found the ...

Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill ... Their mother, the queen, roams around the nest while laying 1,500 eggs a day! Now, all those baby ants need to live in a narrow temperature ...

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 ...

Some creatures are willing to do anything to survive. Ants, in particular, do not hesitate to adopt radical behaviors to ensure the survival of their colony. But why do queens eat their own offspring?

Some ants have wings, which are longer in the front and shorter by their hind legs. The presence of wings indicates an ant’s fertility—ants with wings are either queens or the drones whose job ...

These fire ants apparently hitched rides to Japan in shipping containers. For three consecutive years from fiscal 2019 through fiscal 2021, large colonies with queens were discovered, as the ...

Winged fire ant queens are capable of flying several kilometres at a time but can travel much further if blown by wind currents. Australia's unique climate and lack of natural predators make it ...