RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A researcher at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is donating to a good cause with the money made from hyper-detailed videos of leaf-cutting ants. Adrian Smith, the ...

Q: I have leaf cutter ants attacking my crape myrtle for the fourth time. I’ve used poison at the entry to their nests, and it seems to work for two to three months. They really like this crape myrtle ...

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 ...

Leaf‐cutting ants are notable for their dual role as both potent herbivores and ecosystem engineers, shaping forest ecosystems through direct defoliation and indirect modifications of the physical ...

A recent study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) reveals that, despite their outsized ecological impact ...

At least some of these have mutualistic ants that are fed from extrafloral nectaries on the leaf stems and housed in swollen thorns that the ants hollow out. In Central America, the bullhorn acacia is ...

Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama discovered that carrying oversized loads limits the ability to perceive the trail in leafcutter ants, akin to blind spots ...