Common air pollutants like ozone and nitric oxide can change the way ants smell, prompting their nest-mates to attack them as if they were intruders. Ants recognise their comrades by scent, and when ...

Ants can be beneficial to gardens by aerating soil, preying on harmful insects, and serving as a food source for birds. While helpful, ants can also become a nuisance by farming sap-sucking insects ...

There are 20 quadrillion ants on Earth —that’s 2.5 million ants for every human. Known ant species (members of the family ...

Phorid flies constitute a diverse assemblage of small dipterans, several species of which have evolved as specialised parasitoids of ant hosts. These flies locate and oviposit on or within individual ...

Every time I try to weed, I am covered with ants! Is there a safe way to get rid of them, or at least control their population? Ants can make gardening unpleasant, to say the least. They often feed on ...