Question: We have a problem with cutter ants. I lose my entire crape myrtle tree every year. All of the pest control personnel I ask do not have a solution. Can you please suggest something to ...

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 ...

In Central America’s rain-drenched forests, leaf-cutting ants collect pieces of leaves on which they grow fungi for food. But the rain can hit hard, especially for a small ant. When leaf-cutting ants ...

The leaf cutter ant (Atta rodona) is a fungus-growing ant that inhabits tropical regions like Manu. Groups of these ants are often seen at night dismantling area vegetation leaf by leaf. During a ...

It is remarkable how, after our prolonged heat, a few late rains and cooler temperatures have triggered roses to resume blooming. It is as if the roses, in defiance of a frost that is just a few weeks ...

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 ...

Question: How do we get rid of leaf-cutter ants? — C.H., Cherokee, Texas A Texas leaf cutter ant carrying a leaf that it has removed from a plant. (File Photo) Answer: The Texas leaf-cutter ants are ...

In the late ‘90s, Cameron Currie, now a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin, traversed through the Panamanian rainforest to observe the world’s most ancient agriculturalists: leaf ...

First, two lilies disappeared from the garden. Then, a crape myrtle tree was stripped overnight. Tina Ramirez's house in the Harper's Landing neighborhood of The Woodlands was under attack. Every ...

Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama discovered that carrying oversized loads limits the ability to perceive the trail in leafcutter ants, akin to blind spots ...

You have one of two relationships with leaf-cutter ants. First, you’re a nature-lover, visiting Costa Rica, as you always do, when it’s a little too cold at home. You’re enjoying the house you don’t ...

Scientists have noted instances of leaf-cutter bees using plastic waste to construct their nests and one research group suggested such behavior could be an 'ecologically adaptive trait' and beneficial ...