Velvet ant venom acts on specific pain pathways in mammals and insects, revealing a unique biological defence mechanism ...

As someone interested in ecology and the environment, I commenced an in-depth study of fire ants many years before fire ants appeared in Australia. Once fire ants appeared in Australia, I formed the ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is urging people in southern Texas to keep a lookout for animals suffering from New World screwworm (NWS), a dangerous parasite that also impacts humans.

A team of biologists, neurologists and chemists at Indiana University has discovered why the velvet ant's sting is so painful ...

A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

Parasite, zombie, leech – these words are often used to describe people in unkind ways. Many of us recoil when ticks, ...

A group of Gold Coast residents has called in lawyers to mount a possible class action against the state’s “aggressive and ...

In the fight against drug-resistant bacteria, researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton are enlisting an unexpected army: ants, bees and beetles.

As I rolled the unwieldy 2-foot-diameter log toward the wood splitter, I noticed it was pulpy and rotten in the center. It ...

Read all of the latest news and stories on TV presenter Ant McPartlin. Ant McPartlin OBE is one half of presenting duo Ant and Dec, alongside his friend Declan Donnelly. The pair, who met on Byker ...

By isolating the corpses, ants minimise the risk of pathogens or parasites spreading within their densely populated colony. This is especially important in social insects, where close living quarters ...