Harvester ants, whose industriousness is mentioned by King Solomon in the Bible, keep Kenya's iconic Rift Valley healthy by spreading and mixing grass seeds across the landscape, Martins said.

Here’s the 411 on ants, ant bites and more. Bites and Stings Although ant bites are rarely serious, those from fire and harvester ants can be painful and may require medical attention.

To alert their fellow ants that it's in trouble, a trapped harvester ant calls for help by releasing an alarm substance that others can detect. Since the ants forage together in columns, help is ...

Harvester ants in Nebraska unearthed thousands of fossilized teeth and jaw bones, leading scientists to the discovery of 10 new species. By Annie Roth A small group of paleontologists recently ...

Some, like the Maricopa harvester ant, will kill you fast by poison: it only takes a few hundred stings for this ant to kill a human [compared to 1,500 for honeybees, assuming you are not allergic ...

A series of high-speed camera images shows a horned lizard carefully striking a harvester ant to avoid its pinchers and stinger. This sequence was over in about one-tenth of a second.

All’s fair in love and war – particularly when love is war.Scientists studying the habits of two related species of harvester ants have discovered that during sex, the queens will essentially ...

The red queen in the middle is mating with the upside-down male on the right. Their copulatory organs are locked in place, so the male can completely let go of the queen with his legs and still be ...

These ant 'portraits' reveal how diverse and beautiful these insects are. Photographer Eduard Florin Niga has produced a series of ant “headshots” that “open a door to a completely new world.” ...

On the surface, ants and the Internet don't seem to have much in common. But two Stanford researchers have discovered that a species of harvester ants determine how many foragers to send out of ...