High in Fiji s rainforest, the ant plant Squamellaria grows swollen tubers packed with sealed, single-door apartments. Rival ...

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

High in the rainforest canopies that stretch across the South Pacific island of Fiji, an unlikely peace prevails thanks to a ...

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

Sprinkling cinnamon or diatomaceous earth around the plant bases can help keep ants away. These act as a natural ant ...

Researchers thought colder temperatures and higher elevations could stop the march of invasive fire ants. Mother Nature had ...

Plants have evolved ways to make ants defend them from attacks and spread their seeds, and this new study shows how it happened. In a new study breaking down the genetic history of 1,700 species ...

More information: "Foliar uptake of nitrogen from ant fecal droplets: an overlooked service to ant plants," Journal of Ecology 31 August, 2017 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12841.

Not surprisingly, tiny ants just can't tote seeds as far as their bigger cousins. Now ecologists have shown how much poorer small ants are at moving seeds. The research suggests that plants that ...

Ants eat insects that eat my plants. They pull organic matter down into the ground where it feeds microorganisms essential to plant life. They aerate and till the soil.

Ants are fond of the sweet sap of host plants. A diligent group of ants chewing on a plant’s stem or trunk is capable of girdling and even killing a garden plant.