The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

Little black ants are 1/16-inch long ... which work well in voids. “House-infesting ants share food and feed one another, which is why baits can be effective,” says Benson.

Whatever they are doing, bees take their jobs seriously, be it pollinating plants or nursing their young. They protect their ...

One such challenge is how to grow food while confronting climate-wrought consequences — such as an influx of spreading plant pathogens caused by warming. Instead of chemicals, an army of ants may ...

Army ants, with their large mandibles and painful stings, may prey on reptiles, birds, or even small mammals ... which provide food and the ants protect these plants from pests.

Make sure the bowl is a little bit bigger than your cat’s food bowl. You can use a tray, pie tin, or a cake pan for this.

They drop a plastic vial with a smudge of peanut butter — a favorite food for little fire ants — then retrace their steps to retrieve the vial hours later. Each vial has its own bar code label ...

As a child, do you remember sitting on the step as you watched the ants carry a bit of food across the sidewalk to their secret hideaway? You might have admired these little insects for their ...

That trail of tiny footprints ... one humans should consider enlisting in the fight to grow food in a warming world. “Ants are a Swiss Army knife,” said Jensen, a biologist who studies ...