The poorest farmer can run strings from a weaver ant nest to fruit trees, and legions of female warriors will tirelessly eliminate fruit flies, caterpillars, and other potential pests for free.

The small industrious wood ant can do more than just build high nests in spruce forests. A newly published article in the ...

Ants secrete antibiotic substances and have a close relationship with bacteria that can combat various diseases according to ...

With the start of summer just days away, many of us will be looking forward to long sunny days spent at the beach, by the ...

Ant Identification The first step to getting rid of ants is to identify the type of ant you’re up against. “Different ant ...

Enthusiastically social insects, ants typically live in structured nest communities that may be located underground, in ground-level mounds, or in trees. Carpenter ants, which include more than a ...

Hairy wood ants live in mound-shaped nests made out of dead leaves ... Hairy wood ants forage on the ground and in trees and will also eat just about anything soft bodied that has the misfortune ...

The resin of conifer trees contains antibiotic chemicals and is harvested by the European wood ant to disinfect their nests. A large nest can contain up to 20kg of resin. Ants live in colonies ...