The Red Giant Ant is one of five pets available in the Mythical Egg that was added to Grow a Garden as part of the Blood Moon ...

It’s no secret that ants live a complex life, working together to accomplish incredible feats. A new study just revealed ...

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

Nothing ruins your lovely landscaping like annoying ant hills, but don't fret. You can easily eliminate this problem with an eco-friendly garden product.

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

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

However, tropical rainforest canopies are battlegrounds for survival. Ants compete fiercely for nesting space, taking over ...

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.

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 ...

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

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.