By not fighting among themselves, Argentine ants in the supercolony gain a competitive advantage over other ants, said David Holway, a postdoctoral researcher who designed experiments to test the ...

The European researchers said that in addition to the main supercolony of ants they found a second, smaller but also large colony of Argentine ants in Spain's Catalonia region. When ants of the ...

The California supercolony, which scientists have named the “Californian large,” is only the second-biggest conglomeration of Argentine ants in the world. The biggest colony is found along ...

The massive supercolony of pesky Argentine ants that stretches across California has been trumped: A newly discovered supercolony in Europe is nearly three times as long, spanning the ...

Meanwhile, another supercolony had secured nearly four thousand miles of southern Europe. Californian scientists took a look at the DNA of the Argentine ant, and found little variation.

A 2009 paper in Insectes Sociaux found that Argentine ants from California, Europe and Japan formed a global supercolony. Argentines are very territorial in their South American homeland.

A species of Argentine ant introduced into Europe about 80 years ago has developed the largest supercolony ever recorded. It stretches 6,000 kilometres - from northern Italy, through the south of ...

Researchers have documented the largest ant supercolony yet, a network of Argentine ant nests stretching at least 6,000 kilometers across Europe. It’s “the largest cooperative unit ever ...

pesticide-resistant armyworm from the inside While studying a supercolony of Argentine ants in North Carolina, researcher Eleanor Spicer Rice, then a doctoral student at North Carolina State ...

The European researchers said that in addition to the main supercolony of ants they found a second, smaller but also large colony of Argentine ants in Spain's Catalonia region. When ants of the ...

Asian needle ants have already been found from Alabama to New York City to Oregon, and their venomous stings can cause allergic reactions in some humans. While studying a supercolony of Argentine ...