Sun spiders, also known as camel spiders, aren’t actually spiders at all. They have a fearsome reputation and will prey on a variety of insects, ranging from wasps to silverfish. Although sun spiders ...

What food is sweeter than sugar? Urine. At least, if you are an Australian sugar ant, that is. Sugar ants, Camponotus terebrans, are named for their taste for sweetness. But an experiment conducted by ...

Some ants treat their own infections by eating aphids containing an antiseptic ingredient. In previous laboratory experiments, silky ants (Formica fusca) with fungal infections chose to eat food laced ...

One way to get rid of invasive fire ants, and to protect yourself against their nasty stings, may be to eat them. Fire ants are a venomous group of ants, found around the world. Solenopsis invicta, ...

Eating fire ants might prepare a lizard’s immune system to be stung by the ants, according to a new study by researchers at Penn State. The study comprehensively assessed how the immune system ...