Nesting ants are especially drawn to moist soil, Bossel says. It's important to avoid overwatering while making sure your ...

When is it and why does it happen? - ‘Nuptial flight’ sees insects rise up and take to the air in huge swarms to mate and seek out new colonies ...

Carpenter ants nest in hollow trees, logs, wooden areas in homes, and landscaping timbers. They use these places as shelters for their eggs and larvae. These ants make colonies when they identify ...

The eggs had been previously found in isolation and were identified as ant pupae or ant eggs. The discovery of the intact nest in 2016 resulted in confirmation that these were not made by ants.

The existence of ant colonies was a mystery even to the famous naturalist Charles Darwin. How could evolution produce workers ...

The massive NESTS consist of two parts, one aboveground and one below, which red wood ants create by both burrowing into the earth and gathering needles, leaves, bark, and twigs.

The first-ever described fossilized grasshopper nest has been identified after scientists discovered the 29-million-year-old fossil in the John Day Fossil Beds in 2016, the National Park Service an… ...

A new study reveals that tree-nesting birds, like starlings, weavers and sparrows, prefer to nest in whistling thorns that host the most aggressive ant species, to take advantage of the ants ...