Tarantulas are hairy so that the army ants cleaning their homes don't eat them alive ... but when these ants were observed scavenging for food in South American tarantula burrows, the ants ...

ADAM:'Leaf cutter ants, despite their name, don't eat leaves. They bring them into the nest as a food supply for the fungus they're growing inside and it's the fungus that they eat. ADAM:'Our ants ...

Is It Safe for Cats To Eat Cat Food With Ants in It? You don’t have to worry if your cat eats a few ants by mistake. Most ...

Science finds its way into the most unexpected places. In this surprising case, it all began with the good eyesight of an eight-year-old boy, Hugo. The boy looked closely at a row ...

Ants communicate and cooperate by secreting pheromones, or scent chemicals, that can alert others to danger or lead them to a promising food source. They typically eat nectar, seeds, fungus ...

Schiesl’s granddaughter tells us she found an ant in her grandmother’s hair just a few days ago while bathing her.

Ants are known to kill intruders when they are detected to protect the colony. To avoid attacks, ant crickets use various behaviors that scientists are still figuring out. In this new study, the team ...

Camera trap footage and tools chimpanzees left during food foraging indicated that ... transports a tool to eat army ants in Dindefelo, Senegal. Camera trap image courtesy of Andreu Sánchez ...

Other types of food are often in ... on insects like honey-pot ants — which use their bodies as a portable pantry — and witchetty grubs, or large, wood-eating moth larvae.