Despite their tiny size, ants are able to accomplish absolutely incredible feats. They can build amazingly intricate nests, farm fungus, herd aphids, and even waging full blown wars on other colonies.

It’s no secret that ants live a complex life, working together to accomplish incredible feats. A new study just revealed ...

Elusive ant queen pheromone tracked down Date: July 14, 2010 Source: University of Copenhagen Summary: Much like humans, social insects such as ants and bees behave differently when their mother ...

Scientists have identified a 'princess pheromone' that tells an ant colony when a larva is preparing to become a queen. For Indian jumping ants (Harpegnathos saltator), becoming royalty is all ...

Ants can not only tell whether another ant is part of their nest, ... New research suggests ants use pheromones to differentiate among each other and between themselves and foreign colony members.

Scientists have long suspected that ant body odor is used as pheromones to organize their castes in a colony. Now, researchers at the University of California at Riverside have used hyper ...

(CN) — For creatures as tiny and generally defenseless as ants, communication between members of a colony is essential for survival. It has long been known that ants use pheromones to communicate, but ...

Palmer’s project, Ant Ballet, is an augmentation of ant societal behavior.By appealing to their most base instincts–hacking the pheromone signals that ants rely upon for communication–Palmer ...

Ants navigate their richly aromatic world using an array of odor receptors and chemical signals called pheromones. Whether foraging or defending the nest, mating or tending to their young, ants ...

Holy hell, is this unpleasant. We recently saw how improperly used ant pheromones can cause some pretty dunderheaded behaviors, such as the spiral of ...

Scientists have identified a 'princess pheromone' that tells an ant colony when a larva is preparing to become a queen.