• Generally, most pruning of trees and shrubs is best done in late winter. Spring-blooming shrubs should be pruned after ...

An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

“I would say that fire ants are the biggest pest because they bite and are plentiful.” “The scale insect is an exotic insect,” he said. “Those are parasitic insects that'll start moving ...

A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

Now, an interesting new study reveals some unexpected findings about group problem-solving abilities across species, specifically comparing how ants and humans tackle complex spatial challenges.

First, they placed ants into 60 second meet-and-greet scenarios: In one setting, the insects simply encountered some of their nestmates; another situation involved a group interacting with ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

Williams: to any question that did not involve scale insects, his usual answer was ‘I’ll think about it’ ...

I observed a trail of tiny ants in my kitchen. Like us, they seek warmth and shelter during this bitterly cold weather.

How painful is a velvet ant's sting? A velvet ant's defensive sting is delivered through a stinger that is up to half the length of its body. The Pain Scale for Stinging Insects ranks the discomfort ...

This travel probably stimulated his wide geographical knowledge of scale insects. An ant with a mealybug Credit: Alamy In the Navy, Williams took correspondence courses in agriculture. In 1946 he ...