If ants are destroying your plants' root systems, dealing with them depends on chasing their food sources and uninviting them ...

It can be mixed with a sugary substance to create a DIY formula to disrupt ants' digestive systems and kill colonies. Vinegar and other essential oils like peppermint and tea tree are natural ...

Whether you have dodged their mounds while walking around your yard or endured a painful sting, you know how pesky and dangerous fire ants can be to humans, pets, and gardens. Known as red imported ...

Some garden plants are ant magnets — but not always for the wrong reasons. Here's when to worry and when to let them march on ...

This ant is busily collecting nectar from clusters of flowers on golden Alexanders, a native plant currently in full bloom. This ant is busily collecting nectar from clusters of flowers on golden ...

Around 4,000 plant species from different parts of the world secrete nectar outside their flowers, such as on their stems or leaves, through secretory glands known as extrafloral nectaries. Unlike ...

While plants often have mutually beneficial relationships with insects, a tuber in Fiji grows separate compartments for multiple ant species. By Ari Daniel On a hot and sticky day in Fiji in 2014, ...