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 ...

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 ...

WHEN scientists constructed a puzzle-solving task and pitted teams of people against teams of ants, the insects sometimes proved to be the smarter species. That’s not to denigrate human intelligence – ...

"We'd be sweeping up the dead ones daily." Yellow crazy ants are considered to be one of the world's worst invasive species. The aggressive insects spray formic acid to kill their prey and can ...

Yellowjackets. Hornets. Mice. Stink bugs. New Jersey's pest control industry has been “going absolutely bananas” in recent months. So are the rodents and insects they’re hired to get rid of ...