Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid...

ginger ants and tropical fire ants. Many of the names shared by this genus are often used interchangeably to refer to other species of ant, such as...

Adam and the Ants were an English pop band that formed in London in 1977. The band existed in two versions, both fronted by Adam Ant, between 1977 and...

An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow...

selected by the ANTS Program Committee are: 2006 – ANTS VII – Werner Bley and Robert Boltje – Computation of locally free class groups. 2008 – ANTS VIII – Juliana...

Carpenter ants (Camponotus spp.) are large ants (workers 7 to 13 mm or 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 in) indigenous to many forested parts of the world. They build nests...

hundreds of fertile queens. Not every colony of ants has a queen. Some colonies have multiple queens. Queen ants are the only members of a colony to lay eggs...

Artificial ants represent multi-agent methods inspired by the behavior of real ants. The pheromone-based communication of biological ants is often the...

Leafcutter ants are fungus-growing ants that share the behaviour of cutting leaves which they carry back to their nests to farm fungus. Next to humans...

Adam Ant (born 3 November 1954) is an English singer, musician, and actor. He gained popularity as the lead singer of new wave group Adam and the Ants and...

formicariums) or ant farm is a vivarium which is designed primarily for the study of ant colonies and how ants behave and for the enjoyment of ants as pets. Those...

called bull ants or bulldog ants, also renowned for their powerful sting Diacamma rugosum, also known as the Asian bullet ant Fire ants List of ant genera...

Indiana Mad Ants are an American professional basketball team based in Indianapolis, Indiana that competes in the NBA G League. The Mad Ants are the affiliate...

Velvet ants (Mutillidae) are a family of more than 7,000 species of wasps whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants. Their common name velvet ant refers...

Foxworth The Ants, an English punk rock band formed in spring 1977, later better known as Adam and the Ants "A.N.T.S." a song by Adam and the Ants, a parody...

species of army ants in the single genus, Aenictus. However, the Dorylini contain the genus Dorylus, the most aggressive group of driver ants; 70 species...

Honeypot ants, also called honey ants, are ants which have specialized workers (repletes, plerergates, or rotunds) that consume large amounts of food to...

Weaver ants or green ants are eusocial insects of the Hymenoptera family Formicidae belonging to the tribe Oecophyllini. Weaver ants live in trees (they...

Dorylus, also known as driver ants, safari ants, or siafu, is a large genus of army ants found primarily in central and east Africa, although the range...

fungus primarily targets ants from the tribe Camponotini, including carpenter ants (genus Camponotus). O. unilateralis infects ants of the tribe Camponotini...

Argentine ants displacing native ant species on which the lizards feed. In South Africa, the Argentine ant has in some cases displaced native ants that disperse...

the ants. One study showed that while these ants are attracted to and remove seeds which have adapted for ant dispersal, red imported fire ants damage...

worker caste for which they have been commonly termed "white ants"; however, they are not ants, to which they are only distantly related. About 2,972 extant...

crazy ants survive fire ant venom in ant fights 98% of the time; when the gland ducts were blocked with nail polish in an experiment, crazy ants had only...

Zealand in 1940, but the ant was last seen in 1981. These ants are commonly known as bull ants, bulldog ants or jack jumper ants, and are also associated...

accessible to the public as well as to entomologists. Ants: Their Structure, Development and Behavior "The Ants — Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson | Harvard...

the foraging efficiency of other ants, including those of Iridomyrmex. However, some ants such as the green-head ant (Rhytidoponera metallica) are not...

An ant colony is a population of ants, typically from a single species, capable of maintaining their complete lifecycle. Ant colonies are eusocial, communal...

trail network. It remains detectable even if the ants do not use the trail for several days. Pharaoh ants cease activity at night and begin each day of work...

reminded him of "marching ants". MacPaint Evolution at folklore.org Fun with marching ants describes another scheme for generating the marching ants pattern...