I grew up in southern California, where ants and humans coexist peacefully, where encounters are infrequent and almost always happen outside. Unless you offered them an open invitation -- like leaving ...

Take a Pest Control Quiz. Get matched with an Authorized Partner. Carpenter ants are a common sight in many homes, but their presence often raises questions and concerns. In this article, we provide ...

1. Ants are related to wasps and bees (as evidenced by their trim abdomens, or "wasp waists"). All of these creatures are members of the insect order Hymenoptera. 1. Ants are related to wasps and bees ...

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - Ever been bitten by a fire ant? If you haven't, congratulations. If you have, you know they hurt. In addition to their bites, these pests build large mounds just about ...

Everywhere around us we see visible signs of summer. Children are playing on sports fields and playgrounds. Adults are diligently mowing lawns and landscaping flower beds. It is one of the most ...

We’re throwing a big number at you to start off this episode: 100 quadrillion. That’s a 1 followed by 17 zeroes, and that’s a rough estimate of how many ants there are crawling across the planet! This ...

When the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia last week presented its Leidy Medal to Dr. William Morton Wheeler, internationally famed zoologist, longtime Dean of the Bussey Institution for ...

It was a cloudy spring day in late March and the temperature was just above 40 degrees. After several days of damp weather and cooler temperatures, I decided to take a walk along the Ice Age Trail on ...

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Have you have seen ants this year? In Britain, they were probably black garden ants, known as Lasius niger – Europe’s most common ant. One of somewhere between 12,000 and 20,000 species, they are the ...

An extreme close-up of an ant's face taken by Lithuanian photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas looks like it came straight out of a horror movie, and it is currently haunting the Internet. This ...