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

New research explores the surprising symbiotic relationship between tubers and different ant species at rainforest heights ...

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

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

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

A curious summer encounter with rogue ants turns into a humorous journey through science, myth, and the mysterious habits of ...

Residents across the North East, from Newcastle and Sunderland to Middlesbrough and Durham, are being warned to prepare for ...

Before swarming, ants live in a colony in a nest. Black garden ants nest in dry soil, with them often found in flower beds ...

The Asian needle ant was first discovered in the U.S. in 1932 and found in at least three southeastern states. It is capable ...

No creature embodies the idea that “it takes a village” quite like ants. Using chemical signals and other ephemeral ...

According to National Geographic, flying ants are harmless. Red ants do have a stinger, and can also bite with their mandibles. However 90% of flying ants in the UK are black ants, which don’t have a ...

A fire ant outbreak has hit a coalmine in a major mining state, with environmentalists calling the discovery a “spectacular ...