Building rope bridges between trees to help ants better get around, and increasing the number of sugary extracts left in strategic locations to feed them, can create ant population booms, which Jensen ...

Predatory ants, or army ants, are known to hunt spiders ... protection against their predators," Zamani said. "In turn, they feed on insects that could be harmful to the spider, its eggs, and ...

Ants can also play a key role in dispersing plant seeds: many feed on tasty (to them) oils on the seed coating, but leave the germinating part of the seeds intact, allowing new plants to sprout.

In the border district of Barmer, Rajasthan, in the village of Kandhi Ki Dhani, Ratanpura, there is a unique park called ...

A large nest can contain up to 20kg of resin. Ants live in colonies which can have populations in their millions. The pressure of feeding so many mouths has made ants the masters of finding food.

and aphids that feed on plant sap and excrete a sweet "honeydew" that ants find delicious. One common instance of symbiosis teams up microbe and plant. Legume plants, such as peas and beans ...

Bhubaneswar: It is forest fire season, and pangolins bred in Nandankanan zoo here might face food scarcity as its favourite ...