Seeing a large black ant somewhere in or around your home can send chills up the spine of the average homeowner. These little ...

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Due to recent rainfall and warm temperatures, fire ants are emerging from their winter homes all ...

The black garden queen ant ... Distinguished by her large size and long lifespan—up to 15 years—the queen is a fascinating figure in the ant world. After a single mating flight, where she ...

How do I get rid of ants in the lawn? Ants can be a pain in a manicured lawn as they make ant hills. These may not be big but they cause patches of earth ... the ants and encourage them to move on.

and uncovers the origins of their close partnership A worker of the fungus-farming ant species Mycetophylax asper, collected in Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 2014, on its fungus garden Riley Black ...

Each summer, there comes a moment when we suddenly notice that the ground is crawling with large ... ants are known as alates. In the UK, particularly in urban areas, the winged insects you see are ...

We tend to think of agriculture as a human innovation. But insects beat us to it by millions of years. Various ant species cooperate with fungi, creating a home for them, providing them with ...

Simply placing as few as four live ants into a container of milk provides enough microbes, enzymes and acids to kickstart the fermentation process that creates yogurt. Today, most yogurts are ...

The coconut rhinoceros beetle has become a more recent alarming threat. Native to Southeast Asia and first detected in Hawaii ...

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: ...

House of Commons/BBC Jas Athwal owns a block of flats in Redbridge, east London On top of the black mould, the BBC saw evidence of ant infestations ... to speed with the big moments.

In South America, drier habitats like woody savannas and grasslands fractured large swaths of wet, tropical forests. When ants took fungi out of the wet forests and into drier areas, they isolated ...