Squamellaria plants grow special structures to host the ants they symbiotically rely on for nutrients. Distinct compartments ...

While plants often have mutually beneficial relationships with insects, a tuber in Fiji grows separate compartments for ...

Ant plants from a remote Pacific island reveal new insights into an important ecological question: how unrelated and ...

Fijian plants stop rival ants from fighting by creating separate chambers inside them. This keeps peace and benefits both ants and plants.

So much for all those sweet fables about hardworking ants who sacrifice their interests to those of the colony and queen - new research shows that one species of the miniscule critters is guilty ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies.The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant colonies, despite the potentially lethal defences that ants have ...

Scout ants leave the colony to search for food, and when they find it, they lay down a pheromone trail for the other ants to follow. Soon, you can end up with a long line of This Invasive Ant ...

First spotted in New York City in 2011, the “ManhattAnt” has been identified as a European species. Experts are still learning about its effects on the ecosystem.

To their surprise, the ant — with its black head and abdomen and a red thorax — did not match any of the nearly 800 species found in North America and the researchers speculated that it might ...