So, it’s no surprise that you might have noticed more ants in your garden or outdoor space this month. Plus, ‘ants are typically more active in higher temperatures and ant colonies use sunlight to ...

You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the “Circle of Life” song at the ...

But some worker ants appear to have a workaround for that. When exposed to a pathogen, black garden ants (Lasius niger) tinkered with their nest layout in ways that could slow the spread of ...

Ants have farmed fungi for 66 million years, according to new work in the journal Science. It's a relationship that ...

When humans began farming crops thousands of years ago, agriculture had already been around for millions of years. In fact, several animal lineages have been growing their own food since long before ...

A new study from Smithsonian scientists analyzes ant and fungus species, and uncovers the origins of their close partnership ...

When a huge asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out the dinosaurs and drastically changed the planet. While the ...

When humans began farming crops thousands of years ago, agriculture had already been around for millions of years. In fact, ...

Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History researchers state that this evolutionary partnership became stronger 27 million years ago, and exists even today.

The small openings in the bait station mean that garden animals, such as hedgehogs, and pets won’t be able to reach the bait. Would it be worth treating every ant nest in the garden? No. If every ant ...

At Garden Works we have two rooms we have made available to garden clubs to hold their meetings. When the covid came around ...

Researchers have now used DNA analysis to uncover just how long ants have been farming fungi, now described in a study published Thursday in the journal Science. It turns out these insects have be ...