Wondering how to get rid of carpenter ants? An entomologist weighs in to find out the fastest and most effective ways to kick ...

The life of a Florida carpenter ant (Camponotus floridanus) can be brutal. These territorial ants engage in violent conflicts with rival colonies in the Southeast, often resulting in severe injuries.

Frank and colleagues analyzed leg injuries in Florida carpenter ants (Camponotus floridanus). When wounds on the shin-like tibia were left unattended only 15 percent of the ants survived.

Researchers have observed Florida carpenter ... while ants that received surgeries, either from the researchers or from fellow ants, almost always lived, suggesting the medical care was life ...

While humans have been performing amputations for 30,000 years, the surgeons in this case are unassuming worker ants. Life in a Florida carpenter ant (Camponotus floridanus) colony can be ...

Until the discovery of antibiotic medicine last century, doctors frequently performed amputations to save the life of a patient ... suggests that Florida carpenter ants (Camponotus floridanus ...

Ants in Florida perform life-saving surgery on their peers, scientists have discovered. They are only the second animal in the world known to do this — along with humans. The researchers found ...

Scientists have discovered that Florida carpenter ants perform life-saving amputations on injured nestmates, a level of medical intervention previously only observed in humans. The ants assess ...

In a still from a video, an ant at the bottom of the image bites off the leg of a wounded ant with a purple marker on its back. Danny Buffat Researchers have observed Florida carpenter ants ...