Ants are among nature’s greatest success stories, with an estimated 22,000 species worldwide. Tropical Australia in ...

Invasive ant species are becoming a problem, however, with research showing that over 500 species of ants were found in countries where they aren’t native, having hopped a ride with humans ...

How to Identify Ants. Understanding what type of ants you have in your home could tell you more about why they're invading it ...

The caterpillars of these butterflies develop special glands that secrete a nectar-like substance to attract ants. The ants ...

Dr George McGavin explains how the ant colony is organised into different types of ants, known as castes. Each castes is a different shape and size and has a special job to do. The soldier ants ...

NARRATOR:'Do you know what these tiny little creatures are? Yes, they're ants! NARRATOR:'There are lots of different types of ant, NARRATOR:'and they live all over the world. These ones are from ...

In other tropical and subtropical woodlands, scores of different ant species may share a single tree. But there's little room for coexistence where the ants known as Oecophylla make their home ...

MELODY EUPARADORN / Hawaii Ant Lab image If you list the different birds in your yard, you might come up with 15 to 20 species: myna, spotted dove, cardinal, perhaps a kolea or occasional nene ...

With different ants, however ... that adult females lay eggs only on the plant species inhabited by the right ant species. “When the eggs hatch, the ants will protect the caterpillars from ...

In a previous study, the researchers demonstrated that other species that interact with ants may use a different strategy, hiding from the ants by releasing the same odor as the plant they inhabit.