“Unlike termites, carpenter ants do not eat wood,” writes Ashley Kulhanek and Curtis Young in an OSU post on ants and dead ...

Your garden may look lush and peaceful, but it could be hiding a serious threat. Certain insects that live near your home’s ...

Carpenter ants may not eat wood like termites, but they can still cause serious damage by tunneling through it to build their nests. And unlike other ants, they’re not just after your crumbs—they’re ...

For example, ants are attracted to damaged wood, while termites can excavate intact wood. Ants will leave behind piles of wood shavings because they do not eat what they gouge out.

Some mammals evolved to eat only ants and termites. It happened at least twelve times. These animals developed special ...

Flying ants and termites are often mistaken for each other during their flying stages. Even before they sprout wings, ants ...

Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the ...

The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

Tastes like chicken? Think again—edible ants have distinctive flavor profiles. Go ahead, eat some ants. We triple-dog dare you.

Eating fire ants might prepare a lizard's immune system to be stung by the ants, according to a new study.

A large wingless wood-eating cockroach, unique to Australia's Lord Howe Island and thought extinct since the 1930s, has been rediscovered by a University of Sydney biology student.

During spring, the wood in your house can become the perfect home for insects that never sleep: termites. In North Carolina, termite season usually begins in March or April, when the wood-eating ...