Add repairman to the skills of ants. The super-strength and communicative power of ants are well documented. Ants can lift more than 100 times their body weight and correspond through pheromones and ...

Carpenter ants often get the blame when a tree dies and thousands of the little scurriers are found running in and out the crime scene. The truth is they didn’t do it. The ants were just taking ...

Ten years ago, a major portion of a mature maple tree in our side yard broke off unexpectedly. This year, I decided to have the tree taken down and the stump ground since it might topple unexpectedly ...

Ants have been seen healing wounded trees in Panama—behavior that is believed to have never been observed before. When holes were drilled into Cecropia tree trunks, the ants emerged from their homes ...