Ants have evolved an acute sense of smell, which requires each sensory neuron to choose one scent receptor out of hundreds.

Everywhere around us we see visible signs of summer. Children are playing on sports fields and playgrounds. Adults are diligently mowing lawns and landscaping flower beds. It is one of the most ...

Ants are pretty spectacular critters. They may be rather small, but that doesn’t mean that they are boring. Here, we’ve complied some of the most interesting facts about ants… Ants are quite the ...

Carpenter ants are not squeamish when it comes to caring for the wounded. To minimize the risk of infection, the insects ...

Have you have seen ants this year? In Britain, they were probably black garden ants, known as Lasius niger—Europe’s most common ant. One of somewhere between 12,000 and 20,000 species, they are the ...

When the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia last week presented its Leidy Medal to Dr. William Morton Wheeler, internationally famed zoologist, longtime Dean of the Bussey Institution for ...

The Bible tells us that we can learn a lot from ants, but have you ever considered that we can also learn a lot about ants? The good news is that you’ve come to the right place because we’re about to ...

It was a cloudy spring day in late March and the temperature was just above 40 degrees. After several days of damp weather and cooler temperatures, I decided to take a walk along the Ice Age Trail on ...

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