Before swarming, ants live in a colony in a nest. Black garden ants nest in dry soil, with them often found in flower beds ...

In Britain and Ireland, flying ant days typically occur in July or August, often in warmer urban areas first, when the ...

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

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

New research explores the surprising symbiotic relationship between tubers and different ant species at rainforest heights ...

Insects use a wax layer on their bodies to prevent water loss. Furthermore, they use the layer for communication. Although ...

Households across Ireland are being urged to keep windows and doors shut as swarms of flying ants emerge nationwide in a dramatic seasonal mating surge known as Flying Ant Day.

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

Setting up an ant farm may be more complicated than most people assume, from picking out to the ants to maintenance and more.

Ants are flying at this time of year. While we normally see these common insects on the ground they take to the air once ...