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Milestones are often daunting and deserve recognition. But, at the same time, they are also just days in the year, and life keeps on going. I celebrated my 50th birthday over the holidays, and leading ...

Q: We have a problem with ants that denude various plants in our yard. We used diatomaceous earth heavily last year but without much effect. Is there anything else we can use that would be effective ...

Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama discovered that carrying oversized loads limits ...

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 ...

Few ant species construct cleared trails. Among those that do, leaf-cutting Atta ants build the most prominent networks, with single colonies clearing debris and obstructions from hundreds of meters ...

Find out if ants are friends or foes to your peonies, plus how to remove them before bringing cut peony flowers indoors. Peonies are one of spring’s most beloved blooms. They light up gardens with ...

Leaf-cutter ant nests are biogeochemical hot spots where ants live and import vegetation to grow fungus. Metabolic activity and (in wet tropical forests) soil gas flux to the nest may result in high ...

One kind of tiny ant can serve as a monumental example for how to keep members of a community safe from pathogens. A new ...

This story was originally broadcast on "Sunday Morning" on July 24, 2011. When most people think about ants – if they think about them at all – they think of pests in the pantry or on a picnic. But in ...