and may range in color from black to brown or even a reddish hue. These particular ants have two pairs of wings, with the front pair being much larger than the back, and bent antennae. These ...

One behaviour to watch out for is “anting” – common to many songbirds – whereby a rook deliberately rubs and drags its wings over an ... a nest of small black ants, either lifting the ...

S ammy Ramsey was having a hard time getting information. It was 2019, and he was in Thailand, researching parasites that kill bees. But Ramsey was struggling to get one particular Thai beekeeper to ...

Without pollinators, we wouldn’t have one out of every three bites of food we eat. That’s because about 35 percent of the ...

In fact, Spring started a little early for us, and brought an untimely gift. Whoop-de-doo. We have ants. And we have been struggling. Occasionally in April or May, we have had a small platoon of the ...

The honeydew is soon colonized by a fungus called “sooty mold,” making leaves look black and dirty. Generally sooty mold ... of whiteflies most likely there are also an abundance of ants present.

A prehistoric hell ant that lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ago had an unusual way to kill its prey and sheds new ...

The fossil’s discovery in Brazil shows that ants have been around for longer than once thought. This insect impaled its prey ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a new report. The hell ant, which was preserved in limestone, is a member ...