You might think of ants as being everywhere all the time, but it turns out they live in nine distinct areas of the planet. For the first time, researchers have mapped the "biogeographic realms" where ...

Some butterfly species can’t grow unless they trick ants into taking them home with a complex rhythmic signal.

Fire ants, kidnapper ants, honeypot ants and Argentine ants are ruthless! Fire ants bite and sting! They also use their own young to build a terrifying raft during floods. Kidnapper ants steal other ...