Not all carpenter ants (Camponotus spp.) are black. But the two species you’re most likely to find in North America — the Eastern carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) and the Western one ...

breviceps are red ants that enslave other formicine ants which are black ants. Thus, when one opens a mound and sees red and black ants both in frantic distress, then one may have encountered ...

nature’s examples of deep black are impressive. But one of the striking examples comes from the ground-dwelling velvet ant. This ant, which is actually a flightless wasp, sports a exoskeleton ...

Photograph By Piemags/nature / Alamy A recent study found that the ant’s black color is more complex than it appears. When light hits the exoskeleton, it gets scattered by the wasps’ hairs ...