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 ...

As gardeners, we often encounter a variety of insects in our green spaces, and ants are one of the most common. These tiny creatures can be found scurrying across the soil, climbing plant stems, and ...

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

A simple water bath also encourages ants to relocate. Submerge the entire pot in water for an hour or so, then let it drain thoroughly. Avoid watering again until the soil dries out. “The ants aren't ...

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

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.

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.