Ant bites and stings are more common than you think. Learn which ants are relatively harmless and which you should avoid at all costs.

Wild chimpanzees have long been known to rely on their powerful memories to know where and in what trees they can find ripe ...

A region north of the Grand Canyon is riddled with mysterious spots and the expert came up with the most probable cause of it ...

The switch outs were in sync and the Tigers hardly let the Longhorns have an open look deep into the second half, holding the home team to nine points and a 3-of-14 clip from the field in the ...

he began photographing the mounds and sharing his imagery with researchers for a scientific perspective. It turned out the mound makers were indeed special. They were red wood ants ...

A yearslong interlocal agreement allowing public access to the baseball field at Tommie Barfield Elementary School is on the ...

In lawns, ant hills are a nuisance as they interfere with mowing. Mound ants or yellow meadow ants (Lasius flavus) are the worst offenders. Their mounds are, however, usually flattened by passing feet ...

Losing the herd to TB a few years ago forced a change to the current system: buying in c.30 heifers, outwintering them on the ‘dry lie’ of the free-draining limestone, and finishing them on summer ...

That makes ants, in the eyes of Ida Cecilie Jensen, a legion of unlikely warriors — one humans should consider enlisting in the fight to grow food in a warming world. “Ants are a Swiss Army knife,” ...

DEAR JOAN: During these rains, we are getting numerous “mini-volcanoes” in our yard, and I think these are ant mounds. Is this typical for this time of year? I suspect these ants are enlarging ...

Fire ant infestations can be identified by the presence of ant mounds, which vary in size and can be found outdoors (and sometimes even indoors!) These mounds are often accompanied by trails of ants ...