For Zach DeVries, an assistant professor of Urban Entomology at the University of Kentucky who works with its Cooperative Extension Service, this is the time of year he gets the most calls about ...

Flying ants may seem more formidable than their terrestrial counterparts. Interestingly, though, flying ants—also known as swarmers or alates—aren’t actually a specific variety of ant at all. Flying ...

This past week in my office, our summer interns wouldn’t go into their office because of numerous flies all over the place. They were not flies but rather swarming ants. Perhaps you have seen these ...

Termites, found on every continent except Antarctica, are often referred to as "silent destroyers." These small, social insects live in colonies and spend their lives primarily in search of ...

However, there’s also a flip side. Eight of the 12 myrmecophagous origins are represented by just a single species, meaning most of these lineages could be vulnerable if their insect food sources ...

Lucille Stritzinger, here next to her Plymouth home, which was infested with termites last month, did a lot of blaming but is now simply glad to be rid of her winged warriors. She took care of the ...

Every summer, millions of flying ants take to the skies to mate in the air and establish new colonies. It has been dubbed Flying Ant Day and it wreaks havoc on Brits forced to swat away amorous swarms ...

If you were to design the strangest diet possible, eating nothing but ants and termites would probably make the shortlist. Yet over the past 66 million years, mammals across the globe have repeatedly ...