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 ...

Wasps are moving into plant structures once reserved for ants, disrupting a 10-million-year partnership that helps protect ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Add repairman to the skills of ants. The super-strength and communicative power of ants are well documented. Ants can lift more ...

When this tree is down in the trenches of a dry season and battling pesky leaf-eaters, it calls upon its trusty allies: ants. Ecuador laurel trees will produce an extra dose of sweet, sticky sap to ...

If you were a tree, you wouldn’t have to worry about taxes or traffic or most of the things that stress out a human. Your problems would run more to things like having enough water and being found by ...

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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It's a David versus Goliath kind of story, ...

Ants in your pants? That's nothing compared with ants up your snout. And that's what elephants in the African savanna must contend with when trying to snag a meal from a certain type of acacia tree.

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 ...

“A qualified pest control professional can identify the species, locate the colony, and develop a targeted treatment plan ...

Campers know the pesky feeling of ants crawling up and down their arms and legs. For elephants in Kenya’s central highlands, the sensation is disturbing enough to keep them far away from a variety of ...

Ants in your pants? That's nothing compared with ants up your snout. And that's what elephants in the African savanna must contend with when trying to snag a meal from a certain type of acacia tree.