Termites and carpenter ants are the most concerning, as an infestation left untreated can cause major structural home damage. A tell-tale sign of a termite problem is a swarm of flying insects and ...

New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack’ or ‘ultrablack’, absorbing ...

Flying ants are known as alates. In the UK, particularly in urban areas, the winged insects you see are almost always the sexually mature queens and males of the black garden ant, Lasius niger. The ...

We humans are gifted with the ability to study other species and learn from them — so we can fly like birds and dive like whales. Now, we might aspire to coordinate our business meetings and other ...

you can guarantee that flying ants will make their annual appearance at some point. Flying ants are a bit of a surprise for many people. After all, the ants we are used to seeing under stones in ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant colonies, despite the potentially lethal defences that ants have ...