See pesky ant hills lining your driveway? They are generally harmless and easy to remove. Here's how to get rid of them using ...

Last year, our entire three-flat building in Chicago had an ant problem. Small ants were climbing in through holes in screens or under doors and congregating in groups in each apartment’s kitchen. It ...

Small honey ants are not considered serious commercial pests throughout most of their natural range. However, because they can enter households and other buildings, some people think of them as ...

After witnessing the interactions in an Arizona desert, a Smithsonian researcher suggests that the little ants picked off ...

Household ants are usually attracted to food crumbs and water. These expert-recommended traps and bait stations can ...

Some large marine fish are known to seek out distinct “cleaning stations” where smaller fish and shrimp eat dead skin ...

Learn more about a newly observed insect behavior in which smaller ants clean larger ants.

A harvester ant typically approaches a cone ant nest and stands upright with her mandibles open (all worker ants are female).

In the deserts of southeastern Arizona, harvester ants congregate with serrated jaws agape outside the nests of much smaller cone ants. However, the nests’ inhabitants are not threatened. Instead, ...