This story was originally broadcast on "Sunday Morning" on July 24, 2011. When most people think about ants – if they think about them at all – they think of pests in the pantry or on a picnic. But in ...

Leaf-cutting ants can learn which plants are not suitable for the fungus gardens that supply their food before they even leave the colony, according to a study published March 8, 2017 in the ...

(CNN) — You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the “Circle of Life” song at the beginning of the 1994 Disney animated ...

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 ...

We have all been in that situation: the moving boxes are large and heavy, but we are determined to carry them all in one trip, even if that means we can’t see where we’re going. In the tropics, some ...

Visitors to Cameron Currie’s laboratory at the University of Wisconsin–Madison used to be mesmerized by a demonstration colony of leaf-cutting ants in the lobby. When the microbiologist announced his ...

Nothing is worse than the dreaded fire ant, unless you have met the Texas leaf cutting ant in full force on your own property. It’s a force to be reckoned with. Texas leaf cutting ants, officially ...