During a hike, the narrator stops to show viewers one of nature’s smallest ambush predators: the ant lion. These insects dig funnel-shaped traps in loose sand and wait buried at the bottom. When ants ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ant farms make excellent gifts for kids—and even some adults—who are fascinated by bugs or biology. These low-maintenance ...

The threat of death is no obstacle for some hungry fire ants. To escape drowning while feeding on sugary water, black imported fire ants built syphons out of sand that moved the water to a safer spot.

Those little piles of dirt that ant colonies leave on the ground are an indication that ants are busy underground. And they’re moving more soil and sediment than you might think. A new study finds ...

Ah, ant season. Time to stagger-stomp in your kitchen — swearing you'll send them to that great anthill in the sky — and watch them scurry out from under your toaster. Ewwww, ants in your toast.