Viewers on social media rushed to poke fun at the photo of ants piling debris around a poison trap to outsmart their captor.

A curious summer encounter with rogue ants turns into a humorous journey through science, myth, and the mysterious habits of ...

Velvet ants are not actually ants. They belong to a family of more than 3,000 wasps found worldwide. Around 480 species have been reported from the United States.

Flying ant season is coming – here's what families need to know about when it starts and how to stay prepared this summer.

While they all belong to the true ant family Formicidae, many types of army ants have evolved similar behavior and purpose independently. This may be a type of convergent evolution.

Ants primarily rely on their fine-tuned olfactory sense to differentiate between the smell of members of their own family (i.e. safe ants) and ants from other colonies.

Two teenagers have been sentenced after they were found with about 5,000 ants in their possession. While they claim it was an innocent hobby, Kenyan Wildlife officers say different.