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 ...

A study investigates the evolution of beneficial bacteria that live inside and on the surface of farming ants. Attine ants ...

Research highlights how the meteor impact that ended the dinosaurs helped spawn the mutualistic relationship between ants and ...

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

The queens who ate their infected larvae went on to lay 55 per cent more eggs than non-cannibalized control queens, ...

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

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: ...

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 ...

Who Dares Wins star paid tribute to Liam Payne on ITV's Good Morning Britain following his death at the age of 31 ...

Ant Middleton has paid tribute to his friend Liam Payne following the former One Direction star's death at the age of 31. The ...