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 ...

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 ...

The most highly evolved are the 190 species of leaf-cutter ants living in South America, the Caribbean, Texas and Louisiana. The other ant species live in hunter/gatherer societies.

Second only to humans, leaf cutter ants form the largest and most complex society on earth; one nest can be as large as 30 metres in diameter and house up. Submit. Subscribe for just 30¢ a day; ...

In leaf-cutter ants, this coating is made of thousands of tiny, plate-like crystals that harden their exoskeleton. This “armor” helps prevent the insects from losing limbs in battles with ...

Arts & Entertainment. How to get rid of fire ants and leaf-cutter ants using organic methods Thick mulch and mistletoe are two little-known ways of keeping destructive ant mounds under control.

A leaf-cutter ant. Leaf-cutter ants harvest leaves, chop them into nutritious pulp, feed the pulp to nourish their cultivated crops of fungus, and harvest the fungus to feed themselves.

Leaf-Cutter Ant First Insect Found With Biomineral Body Armor. A well-known leaf-cutting ant grows its own body armor using biominerals, a protective power previously unknown in the insect world, ...

The Year the Leaf-Cutter Ants Took Manhattan In January, the American Museum of Natural History’s new insectarium gained 500,000 tenants. It has taken them some time to find their footing.

Leaf-cutter ants struggle to carry wet leaves, so they run to avoid rain. Skip to content. Subscribe or renew today Every print subscription comes with full digital access.

A colony of leaf-cutter ants has received what is believed to be the world’s smallest Valentine’s Day card. The tiny love letter made by amphibian specialist Ally Sharp is just .1 inches wide ...

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 ...