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

A study investigates the evolution of beneficial bacteria that live inside and on the surface of farming ants. Attine ants farm fungi, in one of the ...

How should I get rid of ants? Usually you don't need to bother. Where their activity has loosened plants, firm the plants back into the soil and water well. Good watering tends to discourage ants, as ...

While our human ancestors began domesticating food crops around 10,000 years ago, a lineage of ants called the "attines" became fungus farmers 60 million years earlier. The attine ants and their ...

While our human ancestors began domesticating food crops around 10,000 years ago, a lineage of ants called the ‘attines’ became fungus farmers 60 million years earlier. The attine ants and ...

What are fire ants, and where are they found? What types of reactions may occur after a sting? How is a fire ant allergy diagnosed, and what are the options for treatment? These are very important ...

A bizarre video of an ant crawling inside a laptop screen has gone viral on social media. The clip, shared by a user named Aditya, has sparked widespread amusement and confusion. In the video ...

Researchers have now used DNA analysis to uncover just how long ants have been farming fungi, now described in a study published Thursday in the journal Science. It turns out these insects have be ...

What’s the most obvious way to verify that there’s an ant colony in your vicinity? Their mounds, of course. Also called anthills, mounds are excavated pieces of soil that worker ants create to cover ...

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: ...

A yeast-farming worker of the fungus-farming ant species Cyphomyrmex cf. rimosus, collected in Mindo, Ecuador, in 2011, on its fungus garden. It turns out ants had been cultivating fungi for ...

But insects beat us to it by millions of years. Various ant species cooperate with fungi, creating a home for them, providing them with nutrients, and harvesting them as food. This reaches the ...