Giant African harvester ants are being smuggled out of East Africa and sold on the black market. Here's why collectors want ...

In the biblical text Book of Proverbs, King Solomon describes the harvester ant as a model of wisdom and industriousness: “Go ...

The exotic pet market is a lucrative business. If a smuggler is successful, they could make hundreds, if not thousands, off the illegal pet trade. This is all too tempting for professional animal ...

The African Matabele ants are often injured in fights with termites. Their conspecifics recognize when the wounds become infected and initiate antibiotic treatment. The Matabele ants (Megaponera ...

Africa is not short on intimidating insects, and a surprising number of them come with painful stings. While most of these ...

The story of how tiny ants managed to push lions to kill more African buffalo shows how the arrival of an invasive species can affect multiple animals that seem to have no connections. At an animal ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

An antibiotic substance created by bacteria found on a species of African ant native to Kenya inhibits the growth of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, ...

Nairobi: Kenyan ant expert Dino Martins gushes over the red and black insects that have become the center of an international smuggling trade.Martins has been visiting the network of nests of these ...

Old residents in Zanzibar will remember the sensation that was created when the wife of a foreign consul, walking with her husband on the Muari minoja, — the ‘Rotten Row’ of the African Ceylon, — ...