As ants roam around on a plant, they can help their leafy companion by killing any herbivores they find. Ants often do just that, because many ants need meat in their diets. Some species of ants are ...

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 ...

Perhaps the biggest surprise is that it tricks ants into moving its seeds with a scent that mimics their larvae Plants are superb at enticing animals to pollinate their flowers or carry off their ...

While plants often have mutually beneficial relationships with insects, a tuber in Fiji grows separate compartments for multiple ant species. By Ari Daniel On a hot and sticky day in Fiji in 2014, ...

Today, ants are pretty much everywhere. To learn more about how these insects conquered the world, scientists used a combination of fossils, DNA, and data on the habitat preferences of modern species ...

This is the first plant species in the world found to have adapted traits that enables a mutually beneficial relationship with ants. In a world first, Edith Cowan University (ECU) researchers have ...

Over the last few years, several instances of ants damaging vegetable transplants have been reported on the Delmarva Peninsula in a manner unlike the more usual ant-plant interactions of feeding on ...

Ants marching across the yard might look like tiny road crews at work, but these little engineers are sending messages that go far beyond simple foraging. Their trails are more than lines of organized ...