It’s an insect Jekyll and Hyde. A species of aphid that often forms a mutually beneficial relationship with ants will occasionally turn on its protectors, infiltrating their nest and sucking vital ...

One of the worst effects of ant infestation doesn’t happen inside your house or on your picnic blanket. It takes place in farms and gardens, where many species of ants tend to herds of aphids. These ...

This article is reposted from the old WordPress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. The blog is on holiday until the start of October, when I’ll return with fresh material. In your garden, ...

One of the many things local farming ants do is tend herds of aphids. Ants protect their aphid herds from predators, and there are many. They do this by bringing them into underground aphid corrals ...

Black ants on green leaves in garden - Yoharsi/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. While you're out there gazing at the ornamental flowers you so lovingly planted ...

Wingless, root-dwelling aphids from the same species can come in two different shapes: round or flat. While the round sapsuckers maintain a peaceful, mutually beneficial relationship with ants, the ...

Aphids (plant lice) and ants carry minibacteria that produce essential amino acids and vitamins. These minibacteria have very limited genetic material and many broken genes. Now, researchers have ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 90, No. 3 (Sep., 2007), pp. 419-425 (7 pages) Red imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta (Buren) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), are abundant in many agroecosystems in the ...

Giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum), a weed originating from the Caucasus and invasive in Western Europe, is frequently observed with myrmecophilic aphids, ants, and non-myrmecophilic aphids. The ...

One of the major objectives in biology is to understand the factors and mechanisms that have led to the diversification of species on earth. Plant-feeding insects are the most diversified group of ...

Q. In your answer last week, you talked about ants and aphids on roses. I frequently spot "sugar ants" on some of my roses and other ornamental plants. I have always thought the ants were just ...