There’s no doubting their success as predators, but army ants also bring life wherever they march. They have an entourage of over 550 species that hang […] A swarm of army ants (Eciton ...

It's a very strange life style, and it sets army ants apart from all other ants. And that's only part of the story. Brady, an entomologist at Cornell University, ...

No wonder the army ant is such a virile creature, endowed with the most extreme emotions, when, with such a small section of its anatomy remaining, it can continue to show such astounding activity.

The meat-eating army ants of Trinidad and other tropical locales are such fierce predators that they're known as "the Huns and Tartars of the insect world." But apparently they're no match for the ...

Marauding across the forest floor, aggressive army ant colonies harbor hidden enemies in their ranks -- parasitic beetles. Through dramatic changes in body shape, behavior, and pheromone chemistry ...

The discovery represents the second confirmed army ant fossil, she says. The first – a species known as Neivamyrmex ectopus – was found in 16-million-year-old amber from the Dominican Republic .

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Not all ants use pheromone trails to find their way. It's true that there are blind army ants like Eciton (shown below in a Wikimedia Commons image originally contributed to the public domain by ...

In the 2012 “Avengers” movie, God of Mischief Loki said, “An ant has no quarrel with a boot.” But a soldier stationed at Joint Base Lewis McCord, Washington has a quarrel with an ant ...