Over the last few years, several instances of ants damaging vegetable transplants have been reported on the Delmarva Peninsula in a manner unlike the more usual ant-plant interactions of feeding on ...

Ants usually get into yogurt by accident. But a research team recently added the insects on purpose while reviving a traditional recipe. The researchers’ new study reveals how red wood ants' holobiont ...

Mutualistic partnerships between species abound across nature — but it’s a tricky dance to make sure both parties keep ...

There are 20 quadrillion ants on Earth —that’s 2.5 million ants for every human. Known ant species (members of the family ...

The small industrious wood ant can do more than just build high nests in spruce forests. A newly published article in the journal Microbial Ecology reveals that ants combat a range of plant diseases, ...