Known for having the most painful sting of any insect, the Bullet Ant is found in South American rainforests. Its sting can last up to 24 hours, often compared to being shot. Fire Ants are ...
It's better to water the ant hill regularly with cold water as this won't kill the turf but will disturb the ants and encourage them to move on. Black ants are the only species likely to venture ...
and uncovers the origins of their close partnership A worker of the fungus-farming ant species Mycetophylax asper, collected in Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 2014, on its fungus garden Riley Black ...
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 ...
Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ancestors of today’s ants. In fact, the climatic upheaval that rocked Earth ...