This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A new paper from Caltech reveals how a type of rove beetle turns off its own pheromones — and steals them from ...

Rove beetles have evolved a neat trick to survive. They cloak themselves in ant pheromones, allowing them to enter and remain undetected within ant colonies. But it comes with a catch. Once a rove ...

As organisms diversified on planet Earth, some branches of the tree of life became exceptionally diverse, others far less so. Still others went extinct. Why evolution favored certain groups over ...

* Velvety tree ants crawl on a tray held by Professor Joe Parker of Caltech as he conducts research at the Big Dalton Canyon Wilderness Park in Glendora on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. (Photo by Trevor ...

Army ants infamously visit destruction upon thousands of unlucky insects, but new findings highlight one of the ways the insects bolster biodiversity as well. The hodgepodge collections of food waste ...

Myrmecophily is pronounced mur-muh-KOF-uh-lee and literally means ant love. With a pretty literal meaning, it refers to the positive interactions between ants and other organisms. It most often refers ...

The showrunner of the Angeles National Forest isn’t a 500-pound black bear or a stealthy mountain lion. It’s a small ant. The velvety tree ant forms a millions-strong “social insect carpet that spans ...

Joe Parker, a Caltech entomologist who has studied indigenous forest ants in key canyons above Pasadena and Altadena for eight years, felt his heart sink as he watched live video of the Eaton fire ...