Compared with other ultrablack animals, female velvet ants are darker than the common birdwing butterfly, the only other insect known to display such a shade. The velvet ants’ coloring is closer to ...

Here’s what to do if you find ants in your house. Maybe you’ve spotted a single ant wandering around on the kitchen floor, or ...

Seeing a large black ant somewhere in or around your home can ... compromising the integrity of homes, trees, and ...

Ants range in size from the miniscule up to one inch long, and usually appear black, brown ... in ground-level mounds, or in trees. Carpenter ants, which include more than a thousand species ...

At the same time, ants hunt pests like winter moth larvae, which can defoliate apple trees, to feed their larvae. This opens up entirely new perspectives for biological control of plant diseases.

These are “ant-plant” trees, which famously cooperate with fierce Azteca ants; the trees provide shelter and food to the ants, and in exchange the ants defend their leaves against herbivores.