Last year, our entire three-flat building in Chicago had an ant problem. Small ants were climbing in through holes in screens or under doors and congregating in groups in each apartment’s kitchen. It ...

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats affected by air pollution are attacked when they re-enter the colony. The ...

Ants send messages to colony members through odor compounds that contain alkenes, chemicals that help nestmates recognize one another, which can be degraded by ozone. And past research suggests that ...

Small honey ants are not considered serious commercial pests throughout most of their natural range. However, because they can enter households and other buildings, some people think of them as ...

Common entry points include small cracks in stucco, gaps around pipes, leaks near outdoor faucets and openings near the base ...

A single queen in the tropics; large colonies in deserts; workers with uniform morphology in temperate regions; ant social structures vary according to environmental conditions. This is shown, for the ...

If you go into the forest, the colonies are very small one queen, maybe 100 ants, said Buczkowski in a recent news release. But in urban situations, lots and lots of nests are connected by trails, ...

Researchers have shown that a common ant species undergoes physiological and behavioral changes in unnatural settings. Research by Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists in the Texas A&M Department of ...