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

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

In the animal kingdom, you might think you know what animals eat, but you’d be surprised by some of the unexpected things ...

Fire ants – one of the world’s worst feral pests – have in recent days crossed two state borders and spread 800km within ...

An increased presence of ants in your yard could be down to the plants you're growing. They love sunflowers, azaleas, ...

Cesar Wang, director of Ants HQ, a company specialising in live ant supply, has noted that Britons can expect the flying ant ...

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 ...

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

The Formosan termite is a costly and invasive species in Louisiana. Now, a predator of that termite has made its way to the Bayou State in the stinging Asian Needle Ant ...

Laccaic acid, thought to be produced by lac insects, is produced by a symbiont similar to the zombie ant fungus ...

It begins; Flying Ant Day has arrived in parts of Cornwall and thousands of ants have emerged to swarm in a mating ritual ...