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Discovering ants inside the pantry or on a countertop can be frustrating and even leave homeowners feeling a bit squeamish, especially if the ants attack containers of food. Fortunately, there are ...

At the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, a wildlife preserve in central Kenya, lions and cheetahs mingle with zebras and elephants across many miles of savannah – grasslands with "whistling thorn" acacia trees ...

Asian needle ants, native to China and Japan, are spreading across the Eastern and Southern United States. Their sting is painful and can cause severe allergic reactions, even being described as ...

UK gardeners have been put on high alert as a new destructive species of ant, the Tapinoma magnum, has been spotted in the country. The ants, believed to have arrived in Europe through imported plants ...

Data gathered through years of observation reveal an innocuous-seeming ant is disrupting an ecosystem in East Africa, illustrating the complex web of interactions among ants, trees, lions, zebras and ...