Question: We have a problem with cutter ants. I lose my entire crape myrtle tree every year. All of the pest control personnel I ask do not have a solution. Can you please suggest something to ...

In early January, my wife and I returned from a vacation to tropical beaches and rainforests on Trinidad and Tobago, the most southern of the Caribbean Islands. The trip was expressly to learn about ...

The leaf cutter ant (Atta rodona) is a fungus-growing ant that inhabits tropical regions like Manu. Groups of these ants are often seen at night dismantling area vegetation leaf by leaf. During a ...

Ants began farming fungi 66 million years ago after an asteroid hit Earth, according to a new study. Here the queen and workers of the leaf-cutter ant species Atta cephalotes tend to a fungus garden.

Thousands of leaf cutter ants are farming away at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago's Lincoln Park. It might be the beginning of winter outside but inside the museum, it's the middle of ...

PANAMA CITY, Panama, Sept. 2 (UPI) --Ants have been farming longer than humans have, but as new research reveals, they still haven't domesticated their preferred crop -- fungus. Not long after the ...

The Victoria Bug Zoo is home to dozens of species of insects and arachnids, and two leaf cutter ant colonies. There's the new colony, with a three year old queen whose kingdom grows every day. If all ...