Tarantulas are hairy so that the army ants cleaning their homes don't eat them alive ... but when these ants were observed scavenging for food in South American tarantula burrows, the ants ...

ADAM:'Leaf cutter ants, despite their name, don't eat leaves. They bring them into the nest as a food supply for the fungus they're growing inside and it's the fungus that they eat. ADAM:'Our ants ...

Some insects are valued for their high protein content and nutritional benefits. From ants to scorpions, here are some edible ...

Ants communicate and cooperate by secreting pheromones, or scent chemicals, that can alert others to danger or lead them to a promising food source. They typically eat nectar, seeds, fungus ...

The key to this study lies in the ants' taste for fatty acids, which form the coating of these oak galls When the ants eat that fatty part ... one of the main food sources for ants," said John ...

A new study has used camera-trap footage and scent analysis to confirm the unusual relationship between an African melon and the aardvark, an elusive ant-eating mammal found in sub-Saharan Africa.

Other types of food are often in ... on insects like honey-pot ants — which use their bodies as a portable pantry — and witchetty grubs, or large, wood-eating moth larvae.

If you step on a nest of fire ants, you could be attacked. Since they like oil, they tend to be attracted to snacks and other oily foods. This means they can pose a threat to people eating such ...