Could ants get any cooler? These amazing insects have been known to create rafts and bridges with their bodies and tend to vast fungus gardens. Now, a new study suggests they have also been farming ...

Got ants on your plants? They're probably in the roots, too. While some ant hills in your garden may be beneficial to your plants by aerating the soil, pollinating, and dispersing seeds, too many ants ...

Indoors or outdoors, at a picnic or in the garden, ants are an unwelcome sight. When working in the garden, we find that, unlike many other garden insects, they don’t necessarily retreat when we ...

Ant–plant mutualisms constitute a compelling model of coevolution, whereby plants have evolved specialised structures, notably extrafloral nectaries (EFNs), to entice ants that in turn afford ...

Before you spray, read this. A horticulturist explains why ants can actually protect your plants, and the safest way to control them.

Carnivorous plants can have valuable allies in ants, benefiting from their poop and janitor, bodyguard and cutthroat services, researchers say. However, N. bicalcarata does apparently have unusual ...

Some plants, as you'll discover in this guide, can actually benefit from their presence. Ants often help with seed dispersal, thus enabling certain plants to naturalize themselves. What's more, they ...

Research has demonstrated that millions of years of ant agriculture has remodeled plant physiology. Farming ants deposit nitrogen-rich feces directly inside plants, which has led to the evolution of ...

Plants have evolved ways to make ants defend them from attacks and spread their seeds, and this new study shows how it happened. In a new study breaking down the genetic history of 1,700 species of ...