The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants helps the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

Plant diseases cost the global economy hundreds of billions of dollars every year, with between 20 to 40 percent of global ...

The small industrious wood ant can do more than just build high nests in spruce forests. A newly published article in the journal Microbial Ecology reveals that ants combat a range of plant ...

There are two main species of wood ants - hairy wood ants and red wood ants. Hairy wood ants are a northern species in the UK, but they are found as far south as mid Wales. They are less fussy ...

Woodland Trust Scotland said hairy wood ants boosted carbon absorption in woodland, but they risk being overwhelmed by gaultheria shallon. Volunteers surveyed nests over the winter at the trust's ...

This video shows a wood ant running on a force plate designed to measure the tiny forces generated by each limb. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

In project SpecIAnt we study speciation and hybridization using wood ants as a model system. We focus on the recently diverged Formica rufa group wood ants, many of which occur in Southern Finland ...

There are only two animals capable of transporting an object so large that it can only be moved by cooperating: humans and ...

If you weighed every human and all the ants, the scales would balance. The resin of conifer trees contains antibiotic chemicals and is harvested by the European wood ant to disinfect their nests.

Ingo Arndt (Germany) documents the efficient dismemberment of a blue ground beetle by red wood ants. “Full of ant” is how Ingo described himself after lying next to the ants’ nest for just a few ...