About one tenth of the world's ants are close relatives; they all belong to just one genus out of 323, called Pheidole. New research suggests that Pheidole evolved the same way twice, once to take ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 92, No. 2 (Jun., 2009), pp. 309-313 (5 pages) Phorid flies are well known myrmecophilic organisms and are often parasitoids of ants. In some cases, phorids live ...

Supersoldiers are the biggest, baddest ants of the Pheidole ant genus. They loom above their ant brethren with dramatic bulbous heads and sprout two vestigial wings during development. It wasn’t until ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 90, No. 3 (Sep., 2007), pp. 435-439 (5 pages) The exotic ant, Pheidole obscurithorax Naves, is currently expanding its range and increasing in local density in the ...

Discover the fascinating Pheidole viserion ant species, a newly discovered addition from Papua New Guinea with unique spiky features. , a diverse group of ants in Indonesia with wicked-looking spikes ...

Giant, man-made supersoldiers have made the leap from the realm of science fiction to reality with a little help from an international team of scientists. These chemically induced warriors are quite ...

When eight bizarrely big-headed soldier ants turned up in a wild colony collected from Long Island, N.Y., scientists knew they had found something interesting. This discovery of these oversized ...

While it can sometimes feel like we’ve turned over every last stone on this planet, it’s a fact that the natural world can still surprise us. Need some proof? Just feast your eyes on these badass new ...

When eight bizarrely big-headed soldier ants turned up in a wild colony collected from Long Island, N.Y., scientists knew they had found something interesting. This discovery of these oversized ...

This news release is available in Japanese. About one tenth of the world's ants are close relatives; they all belong to just one genus out of 323, called Pheidole. "If you go into any tropical forest ...