Ants – with their wise farming practices and efficient navigation techniques – could inspire solutions for some human problems. From The Conversation, by Scott Solomon, Associate Teaching Professor of ...

Farmer ants can recruit parasites to battle for them, much like medieval cities sometimes kept expensive contingents of mercenary soldiers to ward off invaders, researchers say. Subscribe to read this ...

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Ants have been farmers for tens of millions of years and successfully solved a riddle that we humans have yet to. A new study reports that ants are pros at cultivating climate-resilient crops.

Ants took up farming some 50 million years ago, according to U.S. researchers who traced the ancestry of farmer ants. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

I used to work in Edinburgh's Butterfly and Insect World. While I was there, my favourite animal was not the chameleon, which changed colour when it was angry. This article was published in Scientific ...

To picture this farm, imagine some dark blobs dangling high up in a tree. Each blob can reach “about soccer ball size,” says evolutionary biologist Guillaume Chomicki of Durham University in England.

The parasitic Megalomyrmex symmetochus ant crashes colonies of fungus-farming Sericomyrmex amabilis ants, eating crops and killing babies. New research suggests the farmers let it slide because of the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - With drought conditions in place again this summer across much of the Ozarks, the hay crop in Missouri has run low again. It’s something that Tim Schnakenberg, an agronomy ...

Some ants grow their own food, just like farmers; other ants build highways that can be seen from the air; and large ant colonies go to war with each other. This exhibition provides a look at life ...

Backyard Farmer looks at mulches and proper usage of mulch as well as carpenter ants. Backyard Farmer looks at mulches and proper usage of mulch as well as carpenter ants and how to control them. The ...