Some ant species are aggressive and pose danger. Encounters are becoming common due to growing cities and shifting weather.

Florida harvester ants move and construct a similar subterranean nest about once a year, according to a study published November 19, 2014 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Walter Tschinkel ...

Florida harvester ants “make a nest that is truly beautiful in its architecture,” says Walter Tschinkel. He has poured molten metal or plaster into the underground nests and dug up the ...

Researchers studied Florida harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex badius) to investigate what factors decide a particular ant's social caste. "Basically what we found is that things are more complicated ...

Walter Tschinkel, an entomologist at Florida State University, tracked more than 400 harvester ant colonies for three years in the the Apalachicola National Forest, just outside Tallahassee.

One of the ants Smith filmed, the Florida harvester ant, “is not considered an aggressive ant, but its venomous sting is very painful,” Orkin says. This story was originally published July 31 ...

One of the ants Smith filmed, the Florida harvester ant, “is not considered an aggressive ant, but its venomous sting is very painful,” Orkin says. This story was originally published July 31 ...

The brood hatches in a week and, feeding on reserves in the queen’s body, grows to maturity in a month. Then the workers begin foraging—in the case of Florida harvester ants, for insects and seeds—to ...

He also zoomed in — a lot — to see the stingers, which in harvester ants are “smaller than the width of a human hair,” according to the video, which captures Florida harvester and trap-jaw ...

Florida harvester ants move and construct a similar subterranean nest about once a year, according to a study published November 19, 2014 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Walter Tschinkel ...

One of the ants Smith filmed, the Florida harvester ant, “is not considered an aggressive ant, but its venomous sting is very painful,” Orkin says. This story was originally published July 31 ...