Each summer, there comes a moment when we suddenly notice that the ground is crawling with large winged ants. Then the air seems to be full of them and we find ourselves ducking and diving, trying not ...

Flying carpenter ants can be seen out in the open, and nest in wood, in which they tunnel. They are most commonly found nesting in wet, damp and/or rotting wood, but may also be present in dry wood.

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

The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

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 ...

concluding that the apes also rely on memory to locate underground ant nests, rather than simply stumbling across nests opportunistically. The chimpanzees were also observed using tools and ...

We wanted to film hundreds of Australian weaver ants cooperating to build a nest from leaves. To secure the leaves these ants do something seen nowhere else in nature - they use their own grubs as ...