Britain has been invaded by hordes of foreign kamikaze ants that cause blackouts - due to their obsession with electricity.

The first colony of lasius neglectus - the Asian super-ant - recorded in the UK has been found at one of the National Trust's most historic buildings. They can't resist electricity and swarms can zap cables, leading to blazes. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

The ants' perspective of how human beings have forgotten their place in the universe. picked by beany11 2 years ago

We're not sure where they came from, we don't really know how to stop them, and they're eating our electronics from the inside out!

The only (and small) good news is they eat fire ants. picked by lynxears 2 years ago

Far from being a model of social co-operation, the ant world is riddled with cheating and corruption and it goes all the way to the top, according to scientists from the Universities of Leeds and Copenhagen. Professor Jacobus Boomsma discovered that certain ants are able to cheat the system, ensuring their offspring become reproductive queens rather than sterile workers. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Design ideas with ant pattern picked by moebel 3 years ago

Well, boys will be boys after all. BUT when I used to do that, at least I just used a magnifying glass. He was using a freaking blow torch! picked by Moe 2 years ago

Queen ants dozily dream, while worker ants are forced to get by taking power naps, the first study of the sleeping habits of ants has revealed. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Buddhist monks, who are bound by faith to nonviolence, are grappling with how to rid a temple of a severe ant infestation without killing the insects. picked by sholom22 3 years ago

Recent discoveries of water and Earth-like soil on Mars have set imaginations running wild that human beings may one day colonise the Red Planet. However, the first inhabitants might not be human in form at all, but rather swarms of tiny robots. picked by EweOrEye 1 year ago

A blue butterfly died out in Britain 30 years ago because of disruptions to a life cycle that includes pretending to be an ant, according to a recently published study that points to smarter ways to protect wildlife.

"It only took the grass growing 0.4 to 0.8 inch taller for the species of ant it relied upon to be replaced by another," picked by bingo 5 months ago

Unusual behavior of a group of kleptoparasitic flies in South Africa. They lay in wait for ants, and mug them, literally stealing food from their mouths! picked by bingo 7 months ago

A flood hits a fire ant colony in the Amazon jungle. An amazing chance to see footage on how the species has adapted to water to protect their queen.

Embedding doesn't work. Click here picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Harvester ants are among the most aggressive and venomous stinging insects known.
Most lizards bite and chew their prey before swallowing, but after nabbing one of the nasty ants with its long tongue, the horned lizard rolls its snack straight into its esophagus, merging intake, transport, and swallowing into a single thirty-millisecond move. picked by Bornbad 10 months ago

Ants and ant-housing trees are a classic example of mutualism. The trees provide room and board for ants that ward off herbivores in return. But friends aren’t always what they seem, a new study shows. picked by kakana 4 months ago

Fire ants have a degree of awesomeness that cannot be replicated by other insects. They are dangerous, relentless, stinging robots that attack anything that comes near their nest without any regard for their own lives. Even their name sounds menacing. Let's see how other challengers fare in the real world: picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Fungi can be incredibly adapted to their niche in life. Cordyceps doesn't just kill and consume it's host, but modifies the ant's behaviour to the Cordycep's advantage.

Footage from Planet Earth picked by pocksucket 2 years ago

The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Gulp. picked by glik 2 years ago

Miniscule magnets found in ant antennae could help to explain why these insects seem to always know where they are going, according to researchers who suspect the magnets are a key component of a sophisticated, nature-made GPS system. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

The carpenter ant in the picture on the right (genus Campanotus), and the bullet ant in the first film clip below (Paraponera clavata), have fallen victim to parasitic fungi of the genus Cordyceps, which manipulate the behaviour of their host in order to increase their own chances of reproducing. picked by bingo 1 year ago