Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Talcum powder on wooden background. - 9dream studio/Shutterstock With so many ways to get rid of ants, baby powder might sound ...

The chemical alerts appear to be situational and depend on proximity to adult worker ants. While a single ant is a comparatively simple creature, things quickly grow more complex as you increase the ...

Imagine being so dedicated to your family that you would ask them to kill you to keep everyone else safe. It sounds unbelievable, but that is exactly what baby ants do when they are infected by a ...

A mother's love isn't necessarily universal across the animal kingdom, with some mothers even resorting to eating children who aren't quite up to scratch. Ant queens in colonies of black garden ants ...

Kidnapper ants raid other ant species' colonies, abduct their young. Kidnapper ants raid other ant species' colonies, abduct their young and take them back to their nest. When the enslaved babies grow ...

New research shows that terminally ill baby ants tell other ants to kill them, potentially protecting the rest of the colony from their infection. In a study published today in the journal Nature ...

In the forests of California’s Sierra Nevada, nature takes a dark, cunning turn. There’s a species of red ant, Polyergus mexicanus, that doesn’t just fight its neighbours. It kidnaps not a few, but ...