At the same time, ants hunt pests like winter moth larvae, which can defoliate apple trees, to feed their larvae. This opens up entirely new perspectives for biological control of plant diseases.

These are “ant-plant” trees, which famously cooperate with fierce Azteca ants; the trees provide shelter and food to the ants, and in exchange the ants defend their leaves against herbivores.

If you see large black ants crawling around your tree and little piles of sawdust on the ground around it, your tree has likely been invaded by carpenter ants. Carpenter ants are not direct ...

The name of this dish visualises the bits of meat clinging to mung bean noodles as ants climbing a tree. It’s a fast meal to cook – not including the time needed to soak the noodles ...

A scene on the African savanna. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Jan. 11, 2008, issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Todd Palmer and colleagues ...

If you weighed every human and all the ants, the scales would balance. The resin of conifer trees contains antibiotic chemicals and is harvested by the European wood ant to disinfect their nests.

Enthusiastically social insects, ants typically live in structured nest communities that may be located underground, in ground-level mounds, or in trees. Carpenter ants, which include more than a ...