The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

The acceleration of change in the Arctic due to global warming is transforming the landscape on a year-to-year basis, often ...

Whatever they are doing, bees take their jobs seriously, be it pollinating plants or nursing their young. They protect their ...

Wood ants, particularly those in the Formica rufa group, play a crucial role in forest ecosystems as keystone species. They are known for their mound-building behavior and their ability to ...

In project SpecIAnt we study speciation and hybridization using wood ants as a model system. We focus on the recently diverged Formica rufa group wood ants, many of which occur in Southern Finland ...

Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions There are two main species of wood ants - hairy wood ants and red wood ants. Hairy wood ants are a northern species in the UK, but they are found as far ...

There are two main species of wood ants - hairy wood ants and red wood ants. Hairy wood ants are a northern species in the UK, but they are found as far south as mid Wales. They are less fussy ...

A tell-tale sign of a termite problem is a swarm of flying insects and trails of sawdust around wood structures. But not all swarming insects are termites. It can be easy to mistake flying ants ...

If you weighed every human and all the ants, the scales would balance. The resin of conifer trees contains antibiotic chemicals and is harvested by the European wood ant to disinfect their nests.

Carpenter ants chew through wood to construct their nests. You might think that a tiny ant couldn’t possibly ruin your day, ...

Ingo Arndt (Germany) documents the efficient dismemberment of a blue ground beetle by red wood ants. “Full of ant” is how Ingo described himself after lying next to the ants’ nest for just a few ...

This video shows a wood ant running on a force plate designed to measure the tiny forces generated by each limb. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...