Native ants in the forests around the recent Eaton fire had survived the heat, flames and smoke, an evolutionary survival ...

Tree-dwelling ants generally live in harmony with their arboreal hosts. But new research suggests that when they run out of space in their trees of choice, the ants can get destructive to neighboring ...

Devon: We saw massive mounds of soil and pine needles where ants were hibernating – but not all of them ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ida Cecilie Jensen The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the ...

The small industrious wood ant can do more than just build high nests in spruce forests. A newly published scientific article in the journal Microbial Ecology reveals that ants combat a range of plant ...

Q A large branch broke off our maple tree last fall. There was no wind or any cause that we could tell, except that there were carpenter ants all over it. Would the ants have gotten into the whole ...

Biologists describe how the waste left by ants on plant leaves serves as a valuable fertilizer for the plants -- handed on a silver platter. In a new article, researchers from Aarhus University ...

Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. Each is a set of interacting individuals, either neurons or ants, using simple chemical interactions that in the aggregate generate their ...

As summer temperatures rise across South Carolina, so does activity from one of the season’s smallest and most persistent pests: ants. Whether swarming your picnic table, creeping along kitchen ...