Imagine a world beneath your feet, teeming with tiny farmers and herders, where societies thrive on agriculture and animal ...

The men, including two Belgian teenagers, pleaded guilty to smuggling thousands of live queen ants, which the Kenyan authorities said were destined for markets in Europe and Asia. By Ali Watkins ...

In this excerpt from "Rise of the Zombie Bugs" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025), author Mindy Weisberger examines the very grizzly end for worker ants that get zombiefied by the decapitating ...

Ants are among nature's greatest success stories, with an estimated 22,000 species worldwide. Tropical Australia in particular is a global hotspot for ant diversity. Some researchers believe it ...

As well as creating unsightly mounds, some species protect other plant-damaging insects like aphids, and carpenter ants can even bite or damage wooden structures. According to Fantastic Pest ...

Colonies of co-operating ants are capable of amazingly sophisticated behaviours such as: “farming” fungi and aphids (small, sap-sucking insects that feed on plants). Ants even outperform ...

We can now add fungi-controlled ants to the list of creatures roaming around Australia. A fungus not yet known to modern science was recently discovered in a remote savannah in the Northern ...

Two Belgian teenagers have been charged in Kenya with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a trend in ...

Strange-looking ants being controlled by a fungus have been discovered on Jawoyn country in the Northern Territory during a Bush Blitz expedition. In the remote savanna of the Northern Territory, ...

One of the crops where this is the biggest concern is tomatoes, which attract various pests, from tomato hornworms to thrips and aphids. One of the most effective—and rewarding—ways to prevent ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Two Belgian teenagers were charged Tuesday with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part ...