Rasberry crazy ants (scientifically known as Nylanderia fulva) are one of the more recent and frustrating invasive critters to make their presence known in US gardens, so it makes good sense to arm ...

"Crazy" ants on the march have a taste for everything from livestock to electrical equipment. They are so obnoxious that many residents yearn for the good old days when all they had to fight was ...

Yellow crazy ants (Anoplolepis gracilipes) are, to put it simply, one of the more well known aggressive 'jerks' of the ant world. And that's saying a lot for any of the countless number of ...

Researchers just discovered a method of animal reproduction previously unknown to science, reporting that a biological law is being “broken” by a species of ant. The yellow crazy ant ...

Most male yellow crazy ants carry two separate sets of DNA, resulting from sperm and egg cells that don’t mix their genetic material after fertilisation. This means the males are chimeras ...

Yellow crazy ants break the rules of reproduction. Every male ant contains separate populations of cells from two distinct genetic lineages, making them “chimeras,” researchers report in the ...

What interests them is how the insects reproduce, because males of this ant have long perplexed scientists. "The results of previous genetic analyses of the yellow crazy ant have shown that the ...

Most male yellow crazy ants have two distinct sets of DNA in their bodies, a new study published last week in Science finds. The ants display a genetic condition called chimerism, named for the ...

For every human on Earth, there's estimated to be about 2.5 million ants – or 20 quadrillion in total. A new study published by researchers at both the University of Hong Kong and University of ...