Most people only notice the differences in their colour, with black ants being the most common. However, if you spot a red ant in your home, you might wonder how they differ from black ants and ...

First, it’s important to note that red ant is a general term referring to color rather than a specific species. Just as there ...

Despite their name and looks, velvet ants are actually wasps. Many of these delightfully fuzzy insects exhibit bright, contrasting shades of black with red, orange or white. Their bold bodies serve as ...

For instance, many of the formicine slave-makers like P. breviceps are red ants that enslave other formicine ants which are black ants. Thus, when one opens a mound and sees red and black ants ...

Ants range in size from the miniscule up to one inch long, and usually appear black, brown, red, or yellow. Ants look much like termites, and the two are often confused. Ants can be identified by ...

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 ...

One of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings' best songs is "April the 14, Part I," a tune that audaciously weaves a narrative about the sinking of the Titanic, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln ...