After a recent period of major rainfall, I visited a wooded area to see what animals I could find, wondering if any had left for Noah’s Ark. I turned over an old piece of roofing tin and noticed that ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Discovering a line of ants brazenly wandering across your kitchen counters is not exactly a pleasant occurrence, and neither is ...

Carpenter ants often get the blame when a tree dies and thousands of the little scurriers are found running in and out the crime scene. The truth is they didn’t do it. The ants were just taking ...

I rarely spot either culprit, but my trees reveal exactly what pileated woodpeckers and carpenter ants are up to.

Ants known to defend certain species of Acacia trees from elephant predation deter the massive herbivores so effectively that they are impacting entire savanna ecosystems, according to a study ...

A species of Amazonian ant has adopted a unique method of providing Lebensraum for its expanding colonies: It kills off all other species of vegetation in an area of forest to give its host trees the ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Ants are not out of their weight class when defending trees from the appetite of nature's heavyweight, the African elephant, a new University of Florida study finds. Columns of ...

Q: War rages quietly in my three apple trees. I have a beautiful, healthy army of ladybugs and nymphs trying to control the aphid population. I have tried the following to eliminate ants from climbing ...

I noticed sawdust at the base of my tree and am concerned about its health. There also seem to be black ants, some big and some small, going up and down the trunk. Is there something I should do to ...

Add repairman to the skills of ants. The super-strength and communicative power of ants are well documented. Ants can lift more than 100 times their body weight and correspond through pheromones and ...