Here’s how to manage ant hills in your yard and garden.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A red ant on a leaf Ants are, more often than not, relatively harmless bugs to have in your yard, but if their nest is tearing up ...

Ants can be a real problem if you let them take over your garden, as they could come into your home and wreck havoc - but one ...

The first time Marcela Cosarinsky saw a nest of Atta vollenweideri leaf-cutter ants, it was the late 1990s and she was in an Argentinian grassland studying termites. Local children showed her a mound ...

Invasive tawny crazy ants have been wreaking havoc across the U.S. Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas, disrupting ecosystems and causing headaches for homeowners. Now scientists at The University of ...

Ants make a series of clever architectural adjustments to their nests to prevent the spread of disease, University of Bristol research has uncovered. Study lead author Luke Leckie, a Ph.D. researcher ...

Some ants have figured out how to keep from getting lost: Build taller anthills. Desert ants that live in the hot, flat salt pans of Tunisia spend their days looking for food. Successful grocery runs ...

Finding a carpenter ant nest in your home is alarming, and for good reason. Unlike other types of ants, these ants excavate wood to build their nests. Over time, their destructive behavior can weaken ...

When building a bird nest in ant territory, the best defense could be an offensive fungus. Swollen-thorn acacia trees are aggressively defended by multiple species of ants. And yet, several species of ...