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

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

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

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

Think back to a time you helped someone move a heavy object, such as a couch. While at first the task may have appeared ...

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 ...

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.

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 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.