“Most termites live several meters deep and have no visual perception. However, harvester termites come out at dusk to ...

Red wood ants are typically found in Eurasia’s temperate and boreal forests. But in recent decades, more nests have been disappearing as the forests have fallen victim to logging, urbanization ...

Nature is full of cunning trickery, but few are as audacious as the blow fly. Imagine not only altering your smell and ...

According to the team, the relationship between the blow fly larvae and termites appears to be some form of social parasitism ...

Nature is full of impostors, and many of them are found in the insect world. Certain species, such as the bee fly or the ant ...

For the first time ever, an international study led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), a joint centre of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (the Spanish National ...

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

Wild chimpanzees have long been known to rely on their powerful memories to know where and in what trees they can find ripe ...

Symbiotic relationships between species are both common and incredible, including those between ants and these four insects, ...

Video released by the National Fire Ant Eradication Program shows how quickly the world's worst invasive pests swarm to protect their nests. House painter Joel Booker was lucky not to have been ...

Fire ants swarm from their nests to attack humans and animals, defending their nests with nasty stings.

Deadly fire ants have breached the Sunshine Coast biosecurity zone, with six nests found at a building site, prompting calls for more federal funding to thwart the pests’ march across the state.