If you want to survive as an ant, you'd better get ready to make some noise. A new study shows that even ant pupae—a stage between larvae and adult—can communicate via sound, and that this communication can be crucial to their survival.
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The insects make better decisions collectively than when on their own... 
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Here are some examples of collective intelligence which can be observed in the nature Via Howard Rheingold
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Plants inhabited by ants have greater prey and nutrient inputs and are more successful.
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Ants work together to battle a deadly fungus by diluting the infection across the colony...
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Sensing Magnets: Navigation in Desert Ants | The Thoughtful Animal, Scientific American Blog Network
The more scientists discover about desert ants, the more impressive they seem. Decades of research have established that ants use path integration - an innate form ...
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Researchers are confirming what African farmers already know: Termites and ants can be used to increase soil fertility and crop yields.
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When eight bizarrely big-headed soldier ants turned up in a wild colony collected from Long Island, N.Y., scientists knew they had found something interesting.
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Tunisian desert ants calculate the shortest route home after a day of wandering and counting their footsteps.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research shows populations of an invasive species of ants frequently collapse without human involvement, potentially saving millions of dollars on control and eradication.
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Just when you thought insects just couldn't get any wackier, along comes...
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Unbelievable these tiny little devils. Whatever we forget on the kitchen table, these guys take it. Now we tried it with a dead gecko we found in garden and an observation camera. Looks like time is money for this little workers and Geico needs a new mascot to tell you how much money you can save with their insurance. With this spirit, we would get rich in no time. This is really crazy.
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In the world of ants, a "slave rebellion" isn't a sudden uprising: it's the slow and stealthy murder of the next generation of captors while they're too young to fight back. Ants that have been seized and put to work tending another species' young instead tear some of those young to shreds. Now scientists have found that these rebellions aren’t random acts of retaliation, but an ongoing strategy in the war between these species.
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One species of ant-eating carnivorous plant has a special trick to flip insects.
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Artist and designer Ollie Palmer uses a synthetic pheromone to control the movements of his ants, with the aim of creating a kind of balletic ant dance. These 'Argentine ants' (Linepithema humileants) are too invasive to be brought back to the UK, so Ollie currently works with ants out in Barcelona. Another video: http://youtu.be/XsNBNTdO794 Article: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/03/artificial-pheromone-controls-invasive-ant-dance.html
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The similarities offer a look at how ever-growing human societies could collapse.
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Slovakian wildlife photographer Adrián Skippy Purkart captured a queen ant being ravaged by a swarm of males while having her brain sucked out of her head by a spider. This video was posted on the Amateur myrmecology Youtube channel.
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bbc.co.uk - Ants retain retain the scent of insects they have fought with, enabling the whole colony to collectively "know its enemies", say scientists.
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Every animal carries a record of its past in its genes -- sometimes teeth show up in birds and vestigial limbs on snakes and whales. Ants are no exception. What if that potential could be tapped? And what brings it out? That’s what a group of scientists at McGill University thought when they ran into a colony of ants on Long Island. A colony of ants known as Pheidole morrisi (more commonly called big-headed ants) had members we call soldiers with really outsized heads and bodies. These were called “super soldiers.”
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Ant farms aren't just for kids anymore... I took these shots with a Nikon D300 every 60 sec for 4 days = 4,500 photos.
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ScienceShot: Ant 'Gas Gun' Paralyzes Prey - Some ants don't fight fair. Scientists have discovered that a common African ant deploys a powerful venom to kill termites—at long range.
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Saharan desert ants are known to wander great distances in search of food. Twisting and turning on their way, the ants manage to return to their nests along surprisingly direct paths.
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Researchers have shown for the first time how Golden orb web spiders (Nephila antipodiana) add a chemical to their web silk to repel invading ants.
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