Indoors or outdoors, at a picnic or in the garden, ants are an unwelcome sight. When working in the garden, we find that, unlike many other garden insects, they don’t necessarily retreat when we ...

Before you spray, read this. A horticulturist explains why ants can actually protect your plants, and the safest way to ...

Ant–plant mutualisms constitute a compelling model of coevolution, whereby plants have evolved specialised structures, notably extrafloral nectaries (EFNs), to entice ants that in turn afford ...

Carnivorous plants can have valuable allies in ants, benefiting from their poop and janitor, bodyguard and cutthroat services, researchers say. However, N. bicalcarata does apparently have unusual ...

Humans began cultivating crops about 12,000 years ago. Ants have been at it rather longer. Leafcutter ants, the best-known insect farmers, belong to a lineage of insects that have been running fungus ...

Could ants get any cooler? These amazing insects have been known to create rafts and bridges with their bodies and tend to vast fungus gardens. Now, a new study suggests they have also been farming ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When aggressive ant species come in contact, deadly conflicts ensue G. Chomicki In the middle of the South Pacific, a group of ...

For plant species that depend on animal-mediated pollination, reproduction hinges on adequate access to pollinators. Even in the presence of intact pollinator assemblages, negative interactions among ...

Research has demonstrated that millions of years of ant agriculture has remodeled plant physiology. Farming ants deposit nitrogen-rich feces directly inside plants, which has led to the evolution of ...