The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface ...
In fact, ants can be useful scavengers and pollinators. Their tunneling and burrowing activities can aerate and enrich the ...
Remove anything that harbors ants: Leaf or brush piles; mulch right up against the house; and clogged gutters. Cut back vegetation against the foundation of your house, and trim limbs that touch ...
This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. If aliens ever do land on Earth, don’t get all huffy if their greeting turns out to be: "Take me to your ant." That ant ...
Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...
Ants in houseplants can be a problem for the plant. Let's find out the right and natural methods to preserve them.
cultivating bumper crops of fungi that are the ants' sole food source. Foragers cut pieces of leaves from trees and drag them home to their nest, where others chew them into a paste that becomes ...
ADAM:'These glass boxes and tubes have been built to replicate the underground tunnels and chambers of an ant colony in the wild and they're full of busy leaf cutter ants. ADAM:'This is the first ...