They get their name from their erratic movements, especially while foraging, and are native to South America but spread to the southern U.S. in the late 1990s. According to the USDA, tawny crazy ants ...

Among the tens of thousands of ant species, incredible ‘intelligent’ behaviors like crop culture, animal husbandry, surgery, ‘piracy’, social distancing, and complex architecture have evolved. Yet at ...

Longhorn crazy ants, named for their jerky and erratic movements, may seem chaotic, but they are actually very cooperative and efficient at retrieving food. A new study shows that through intelligence ...

Crazy ants are about 1/8 inch long and are on the march to invade ecosystems worldwide. There are at least 21 species of crazy ants inhabiting North America today.Two notable ones are yellow crazy ...

Texas is home to some of the creepiest, crawliest, and otherwise oddest animals on the planet. We introduce you to them in What in Tarnation?!, an occasional series. The teeming masses of crazy ants ...

Scientists have have demonstrated how to use a naturally occurring fungus to crush local populations of tawny crazy ants. When tawny crazy ants move into a new area, the invasive species is like an ...

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