It will give you some insight into our household that the first few hours of Empire of the Ants were accompanied by hooting, ...

This reaches the peak of sophistication in the leafcutter ants, which cut foliage ... the kind of farming practiced by each ant species. Some of them farm yeast, others farm a group of species ...

The study shows that the asteroid impact created favourable conditions for fungi to thrive on decaying plant material, ...

The age-old question has prompted many bug lovers to keep ant farms, so they can watch how a colony of ants lives. But what ...

In turn, the ant consumes substances produced by the ... fungus were the insect’s external stomach.” Today, ants’ ability to farm has led to development of diverse fungi species that are ...

The National Farmers' Federation warns that the Federal Government's dismal response to the Red Imported Fire Ant Senate ...

Each summer, there comes a moment when we suddenly notice that the ground is crawling with large winged ants. Then the air seems to be full of them and we find ourselves ducking and diving, trying not ...

More than 20 lineages of animals farm, including termites, beetles and, perhaps most famously, the ants. Ants are prolific fungus farmers. Hundreds of ant species do it. A study out in the journal ...

Attine ants farm fungi, in one of the natural world's best-studied mutualistic symbioses. In the 1990s, the picture of this mutualism was expanded to include another partner: an actinobacteria ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

The toll on Australian agriculture if Red Fire Ant isn’t eradicated could be huge ... of total land area and each of us ...

the scientists were able to ascertain how long ago the ants and fungi branched into the families and species alive today. The researchers found that the ancestors of the modern ant-grown fungi ...