The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ants:

Ants–social insects with geniculate (elbowed) antennae and a distinctive node-like structure that forms a slender waist. Ants are of the family Formicidae and evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the mid-Cretaceous period between 110 and 130 million years ago, diversifying after the rise of flowering plants. More than 12,500 out of an estimated total of 22,000 species have been classified.

• Ant colony
• Myrmecology– scientific study of ants

Ant

• List of ant genera
• List of ants of Great Britain

• Ant colony optimization algorithms
• Ant mill

• Murray S. Blum (1929–2015)
• Barry Bolton
• Horace Donisthorpe (1870–1951)
• Auguste Forel (1848–1931)
• William Gould (1715–1799)
• Bert Hölldobler (born 1936)
• Thomas C. Jerdon (1811–1872)
• Sir John Lubbock (1st Lord and Baron Avebury) (1834–1913)
• Derek Wragge Morley (1920–1969)
• Frederick Smith (1805–1879)
• John Obadiah Westwood (1805–1893)
• William Morton Wheeler (1865–1937)
• E.O. Wilson (1929–2021)