As warmer months bring more outdoor activity across North Carolina, experts are warning residents to watch out for a lesser-known but potentially dangerous insect: the Asian needle ant.

According to Sons, you can create a natural barrier by using diatomaceous earth or cinnamon around your vulnerable plants ...

After a mild past winter, the ant population here is growing. Here's what you can do before ants come marching in one by one ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 24.

The odd-looking specimen with scythe-like jaws indicates that early ants were spread widely across the globe while dinosaurs ...

In Kenya, two ant smuggling cases recently made global headlines. It's part of a growing problem with biopiracy and the ...

A small group of fire ants can change a colony's social structure using genetic traits and chemical signals, says a new study.

Discovered in the Crato Formation, this "hell ant" exhibits unique features like scythe-like jaws and wasp-like anatomy. This finding pushes back the known fossil record of ants by ten million ...