Noticing ghost, or sugar ants, invading your house lately? The tiny critters tend to appear more March to October. Here's how ...

According to experts, using orange peels as composting material can boost plant health and even deter common garden pests ...

Ants are among nature's greatest success stories, with an estimated 22,000 species worldwide. Tropical Australia in ...

“They don’t sting. They’re too small to bite you. And so to most people, they would seem the same as a black garden ant. They’re quite inconspicuous.” However, shrink down to seed ...

In other words: With a boost from coital contact, Long Live the Queen. Habitat/range: Black garden ants (Lasius niger) live in Europe and parts of North America and Asia. They’re found under ...

With the arrival of spring, gardeners face the challenge of dealing with pests that can damage plants. A gardening expert has ...

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

Flying ants are known as alates. In the UK, particularly in urban areas, the winged insects you see are almost always the sexually mature queens and males of the black garden ant, Lasius niger. The ...

LSU AgCenter entomologist Aaron Ashbrook recommends a strategy called the Texas two-step. Borrowing its name from the country ...

LOOKING to the extensive and systematic work which Dr. McCook has already accomplished in the study of some of the most interesting species of New World ants, we are exceedingly glad to observe ...