So, it’s no surprise that you might have noticed more ants in your garden or outdoor space this month. Plus, ‘ants are ...

Ants began farming fungi 66 million years ago post-asteroid impact, with leafcutter ants evolving advanced agricultural ...

Ant mothers are the queens of tough love. They simply don't have time to coddle their sick young. If a newly hatched black ...

But some worker ants appear to have a workaround for that. When exposed to a pathogen, black garden ants (Lasius niger) tinkered with their nest layout in ways that could slow the spread of ...

The event that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't all bad. The low-light environment caused by the meteor impact some 66 million ...

A new North Carolina State University study finds that climate change could be destabilizing the mutualistic relationships ...

In a recent paper presented by a group of passionate biologists, they shared their discovery of how black garden ants create and implement this impressive strategy to keep their nests, and ...

Ants have farmed fungi for 66 million years, according to new work in the journal Science. It's a relationship that ...

A lower-fungus-farming worker of the rare fungus-farming ant species Mycetophylax asper, collected in Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 2014, on its fungus garden. Credit: Don Parsons. Note to editors: ...

You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the “Circle of Life” song at the ...

The small openings in the bait station mean that garden animals, such as hedgehogs, and pets won’t be able to reach the bait. Would it be worth treating every ant nest in the garden? No. If every ant ...