“As temperatures warm and spring rains fall, insect populations wake up and heed the call to mate and nest,” Cascade Pest ...

An insect with a bite described as 'liquid fire' has made its way to the Midwest. Say hello, to the Asian Needle Ant.

Californians looking out for creepy crawlies such as scorpions and tarantulas may want to add the Maricopa harvester ant, one ...

ABC Home & Commercial Services, a Houston pest control company with over 77 years of experience, has published a guide covering eight common Texas ant species, helping homeowners distinguish between ...

A colony of leafcutter ants is home to more than just one species. Each year, studies reveal new layers of complexity in these ecosystems, where various fungi and bacteria thrive alongside the ants, ...

Leafcutter ant cutting a seed. Leafcutter ants carry plant parts to the colony, where they are digested by fungi and bacteria (photo: Mariana Barcoto/IB-UNESP) By André Julião | Agência FAPESP – A ...

Researchers investigating an unusual insect nest made a discovery that revealed the remarkable scale of structures hidden ...

Walk around the Cincinnati Zoo for an hour or so and it’s easy to think of the place as a neighborhood. Sure, the neighbors hang from trees and poop in their living rooms, but the similarities to a ...

Ant species that evolved thinner shells traded individual armor protection for increases in colony size, enabling improved food gathering, task organization and defense, according to researchers from ...

Dear Neil: I was gifted a (crowded) bowl of succulents with many plants in that bowl. I know there are too many. How do I transplant them, and how can I tell if they’re going to make it through the ...

Q: I have leaf cutter ants attacking my crape myrtle for the fourth time. I’ve used poison at the entry to their nests, and it seems to work for two to three months. They really like this crape myrtle ...

For centuries we have believed that humans were unique in the ability to farm and cultivate food. However, it turns out that ants have been growing their own food well before humans ever planted a ...