A study conducted by researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP), in Brazil, and collaborators shows that lemon ...

Everything from birds to squirrels to a fungus filled with psychedelic drugs will feast on the poor cicadas as soon as they surface after years of underground gestation. Ants get in on the action ...

Characteristics of social immune memory were observed in colonies of Atta sexdens exposed to four different pathogenic fungi.

Leafcutter ants appear to remember past infections and respond more aggressively to familiar threats, according to a new ...

The newly discovered species, named Gibellula attenboroughii, acts in a similar way as the zombie ant fungus, seemingly manipulating its prey to move to a more suitable spot for the fungus to ...

These ants aren’t eating the leaves they carry—they use plant matter to cultivate a special fungus in their underground chambers. It’s like farming, but instead of growing vegetables, they grow the ...

With the arrival of spring, gardeners face the challenge of dealing with pests that can damage plants. A gardening expert has now shared a simple hack to keep ants at bay ...

For example, aphids living on the trees may excrete the fungus's defense substance in their honeydew and therefore be visited less by ants. In a new study published in Ecology Letters, researchers ...

What they're actually doing is taking these leaves back into the nest and once they're there, they use the leaves to grow a fungus. ADAM:'Leaf cutter ants, despite their name, don't eat leaves.

For example, aphids living on the trees may excrete the fungus's defense substance in their honeydew and therefore be visited less by ants. Endophytes are microorganisms that live inside plants.

Leafcutter ants recognize the pathogen even a month after first contact. In the photo, a lemon leafcutter cleans fungus cultivated by the species ...