It's tempting to squish ants the moment you see them in your house. But pest control pros recommend against it—here's why.

researchers have rarely focused on the ants’ pupal stage, during which they metamorphose from larvae into adult ants. A Myrmecocystus mexicanus honeypot ant drinks fluid from a silken cocoon.

The life cycle of a flying ant has four stages: egg, larvae, pupae, and adult. Ant eggs will either continue to grow and mature into their next stage of life or be eaten by fellow nestmates as a ...

She had plucked pupae from a colony of clonal raider ants, where the sesame seed-size offspring that looked like puffed rice cereal were being fussed over by both younger larvae and older adult ants.

Are ants digging tunnels? We have a solution for that. Forget about chemicals and try these natural tricks—your garden will ...

the flat aphids mimic ant larvae, and once they’re carried into the ant nest, they feed on the real larvae. The findings were published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week.

There are a wide array of other ants besides carpenter ants, winter ants and fire ants – Massachusetts has plenty. Meet the leafcutter, house ant, odorous house ant, pavement and field ant and learn ...

Red imported fire ants are an invasive ant species originally from South America. These aggressive ants have been spreading ...

Within days after hatching, the phorid larva migrates from the thorax into the ant's head; little is known about how the parasitoid avoids being destroyed by the ant's immune system, but one ...

Slave-making ants, for example, steal larvae from other nests and chemically imprint them to become workers serving the slavers’ queen. Many decades ago, researchers noticed that some ant species ...

When the egg hatches, the cow killer ant larva feasts on the host's larvae, killing them. Cow killer ants can be found throughout the U.S., but mainly on the eastern side of the country.