They till your soil, clean up debris, plant seeds, fertilize your plants ... like aphids and mealybugs. They even eat ...

Ants communicate and cooperate by secreting pheromones, or scent chemicals, that can alert others to danger or lead them to a promising food source. They typically eat nectar, seeds, fungus ...

Exactly 150 years ago, scientists first discovered that leaf-cutter ants were cultivating gardens of fungi inside their nests, feeding the fungi bits of leaves and in turn eating the tips of the ...

CHILD #1:Why do they cut the leaves? ADAM:Yeah they're leaf cutting ants, they're not leaf eating ants. What they're actually doing is taking these leaves back into the nest and once they're there ...

These ants eat a wide range of arthropods ... They feed on dead insects and seeds. Most importantly, red harvester ants serve as an essential food source for the threatened Texas horned lizard or ...

‘Not so much to eat now is there,’ said the Grasshopper. ‘We’ve got plenty,’ said the Ant. ‘Our store rooms are full of seeds and corn. Got loads of food. Enough to see us safely ...

A mother's love isn't necessarily universal across the animal kingdom, with some mothers even resorting to eating children who aren't quite up to scratch. Ant queens in colonies of black garden ...

A new North Carolina State University study finds that climate change could be destabilizing the mutualistic relationships ...

In a surprising twist from the natural world, queen ants are taking extreme measures to protect their colonies from disease by eating their own infected offspring. According to a new study led by ...

So, what do bluebirds eat? This doughty little bird with its sweet song is a type of thrush and a member of the Sialia genus.

The black garden queen ant (Lasius niger) ensures colony survival by laying thousands of eggs after a single mating. Her diet, including honeydew, insects, and sometimes her own infected larvae ...

However, some aphids won't produce honeydew for the ants and in that situation the ants may eat them. Some ants, including yellow meadow ants, also farm aphids on the roots of plants. If a plant is ...