Keep your lawn maintained. “If you’re mowing regularly, the ants don’t like it,” says Benson. “Mowing helps disrupt developing mounds.” Eliminate obvious food sources. Clean up fallen fruit and ...

From tiny nuisances to powerful predators, ants are some of the most fascinating, diverse and sometimes deadliest insects on ...

Some ant species are aggressive and pose danger. Encounters are becoming common due to growing cities and shifting weather.

Florida Harvester Ant The Florida Harvester Ant, common in the southeastern United States, is considered dangerous primarily because of the intense pain and significant swelling their sting causes.

Beneath our feet lies a hidden world of architectural marvels and complex social organization. Ant colonies, often referred to as superorganisms, create elaborate underground metropolises that rival ...

Similarly, harvester ants create specialized granaries for seed storage, with specific chambers designed to maintain optimal humidity to prevent premature germination. Some species even “plant” seeds ...

Fire Ants are famous for their fearless aggressiveness and stings which can be found in the southern US in the warm climates. Bullet Ants have one of the most deadliest and painful stings in the ...

Ants are some of the world’s most prolific and misunderstood insects. While North America alone is home to around 1,000 ...

Harvester ants encompass several species, but it was the venom produced by ants of Pogonomyrmex maricopa that had an LD 50 value of 0.12 milligrams/kilograms when injected intravenously.

Ants in Florida perform life-saving surgery on their peers, scientists have discovered. They are only the second animal in the world known to do this — along with humans. The researchers found ...