Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Myrmecophily is pronounced mur-muh-KOF-uh-lee and literally means ant love. With a pretty literal meaning, it refers to the ...

Stepping on a fire ant mound ruins a beautiful afternoon outside. These aggressive insects swarm quickly and deliver painful ...

Some Canary Island ants have picked up an unwelcome stowaway — plastic waste. Plastic entanglement is commonly associated with aquatic and ocean life. Finding plastic-wrapped ants suggests that ...

Californians looking out for creepy crawlies such as scorpions and tarantulas may want to add the Maricopa harvester ant, one ...

Watch the fascinating time-lapse "eLapse," where a single apple slice is slowly consumed by an ant colony over 20 hours.

And here's what you should do to keep them out next spring too.

Some ants might actually not be ants at all, and instead be other animals pretending to be them. Pictures from a new paper in the journal Biology Letters show ants, other insects and spiders that all ...

Ants can be a real nuisance in the garden, but there's a non-toxic method to keep them at bay using a common bathroom item ...