An aggressive ant species is spreading ever further north in Germany and threatening to take down power and internet connections. Ants of the invasive species Tapinoma magnum, which originates in the ...

Tunnelling with the fervour of an invading army, the millions of insects displace so much earth that pavements above them subside, walls collapse and even tombstones begin to topple. Elsewhere they ...

In Arkansas, there are a few different types of nuisance ants, but by far the most common is Tapinoma sessile, the house ant that has a rotten-coconut smell when crushed. John Hopkins, an entomologist ...

Researchers have shown that a common ant species undergoes physiological and behavioral changes in unnatural settings. Research by Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists in the Texas A&M Department of ...

An odorous house ant (“Tapinoma sessile”) queen with a worker. Photo by Adrian Smith Becky Fogel is a newscast host and producer at Texas Standard, a daily news show broadcast by KUT in Austin, Texas.