Zombies are among us. And these tiny undead creatures are everywhere. In this excerpt from "Rise of the Zombie Bugs" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025), author Mindy Weisberger examines the very ...
An insect native to Asia is slowly making its way through the U.S. - and it has a deadly sting. The Asian needle ant, first discovered in the U.S. in 1932, has now been detected in 20 states, The ...
A new study from Caltech explores the remarkable way a SoCal beetle infiltrates the colonies of the ant that runs the show in ...
The scientist E.O. Wilson once wrote that ants are the most warlike of all animals. He said clashes between ant colonies could make great military clashes seem almost small by comparison. Sometimes, ...
A paleoartistic reconstruction of the new species, based on the fossil and on a close relative species found in amber from Myanmar. Now, a team in Brazil has uncovered a 113-million-year-old hell ant ...