"Asian needle ants have a potent and painful sting, but they’re not aggressive like fire ants. They usually only sting when they're accidentally pinched or squished, like if they get caught in ...

The leaf-cutting ants Atta sexdens ... laevigata against both phorid species were markedly different, and these results suggest that foragers take specific defensive steps in order to reduce the ...

Phorid flies have been a problem on mushroom farms since the 1940s, and for decades farmers used a pesticide called diazinon to eliminate them from their crops, according to Michael Wolfin ...

Paul Rosolie is telling MailOnline Travel about the night in the Peruvian Amazon that leaf-cutter ants stole his tent ... Why? 'Bot flies,' says Paul. Bot flies can lay eggs on sweaty clothing ...

Herbivore damage activates the ants, and herbivores such as cattle and leaf-cutter ants are deterred ... from insect parasitoids and predatory flies. However, some of the blues have turned this ...

Leaf cutter ant foregrounds Set of EPS8 editable vector silhouettes of leaf cutter ants with all leaf fragments and ants as ... Sloe bug (Dolycoris baccarum); l) Lantern fly (Fulgora laternaria); m) ...

One impressive insect variety he observed in the tropical, biodiverse area were leaf-cutter ants, a species that shows ... the earliest creatures that could fly and feed themselves by farming.

By Emily Anthes It was a cold, gray afternoon in December, and at the American Museum of Natural History, a half million leaf-cutter ants were hunkered down in their homes. The ants typically ...

When drilling holes into your blocks of wood, you'll want to create smooth incisions that won't catch on their wings or legs as they fly in and out ... or if it's on the ground, ants and beetles.

It was a parade of thousands of leaf-cutter ants. “There’s these perfectly ... she started putting dead leaves and flies on her canvases; when she ran out of flies, she started raising them.