If you don't already have vibrant flower beds teeming with butterflies, learning about these species may inspire you to attract butterflies to your garden by growing the nectar-producing plants that ...

With dozens of species found all over the world, you can find a variety of earwig around the home or out in the wilderness.

With over 12,000 species of ants worldwide, black and red ants have distinct traits. Black ants typically live outdoors but may enter homes for food or shelter. Red ants, especially fire ants ...

But some worker ants appear to have a workaround for that. When exposed to a pathogen, black garden ants (Lasius niger) tinkered with their nest layout in ways that could slow the spread of ...

Ant queens in colonies of black garden ants (Lasius niger) do exactly this, devouring their sick young to recycle their energy into laying new eggs, according to a new paper in the journal Current ...

To test this, the researchers presented founding queens of the black garden ant (Lasius niger) with larvae that had been infected with a fungal pathogen Metarhizium for 24 hours. At this point ...

observed in the black garden ants (Lasius niger), one of the world’s most common, helps protect both the queen and the wider colony from collapse. In cases where the infection was left to spread ...

Nathalie Stroeymeyt at the University of Bristol in the UK and her colleagues demonstrated this by putting groups of 180 black garden ants (Lasius niger), along with larvae and pupae, in ...

To test this theory, scientists exposed founding queens of black garden ants (Lasius niger) to larvae infected with a fungal pathogen, Metarhizium, for 24 hours. At this stage, the infection was fatal ...

Many species of animal eat their own young in certain circumstances. However, scientists report that queen black garden ants (Lasius niger) eat offspring in a seemingly unappetizing state ...

It was the perfect opportunity for the ancestor of a group of ants to start cultivating these microorganisms, according to a study published on October 3 in the journal Science. "The origin of ...

How should I get rid of ants? Usually you don't need to bother. Where their activity has loosened plants, firm the plants back into the soil and water well. Good watering tends to discourage ants, as ...