A newly published scientific article in the journal Microbial Ecology reveals that ants combat a range of plant diseases, including those affecting apples. At the same time, ants hunt pests like ...
A newly published article in the journal Microbial Ecology reveals that ants combat a range of plant diseases, including those affecting apples. At the same time, ants hunt pests like winter moth ...
(How these ants help find fossils.) One Amazon species (Allomerus decemarticulatus) cooperatively builds extensive traps from plant fiber. When an insect steps on one of the trap’s many holes ...
Site manager Ross Watson said: "Some of these newly discovered nests were surrounded by an invasive garden plant, gaultheria shallon, that is also threatening parts of the oak wood. "The ants ...
and aphids that feed on plant sap and excrete a sweet "honeydew" that ants find delicious. One common instance of symbiosis teams up microbe and plant. Legume plants, such as peas and beans ...
Both species are small in stature, but hundreds of their queen ants can inhabit a single nest, enabling a colony to grow at an explosive rate. The invasive ants have entered human habitats ...