When an animal parent has a child, both will belong to the same species. Humans beget humans, combfish beget combfish, and ...

Ant genomes from Fiji reveal insect decline across centuries, offering a warning about the scale of today’s biodiversity ...

So many of the world’s six-legged species are in trouble. Beetles are disappearing, butterfly populations are shrinking and bumblebees are vanishing—all symptoms of a broader problem that has been ...

From pollinating flowers to enabling decomposition and supporting nutrient cycles, insects' abundance and biodiversity are ...

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A species of ant found scurrying across southern Europe is the first animal found that clones males of another species.

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 ...

A team uncovered this bizarre reproductive trait while trying to solve the mystery of a missing ant species. Preliminary data ...

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Small honey ants are not considered serious commercial pests throughout most of their natural range. However, because they can enter households and other buildings, some people think of them as ...