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

Ants and aphids on a poplar leaf: When aphids infest plants, ants are often also present. The ants do not prey on the small insects, but are interested in their honeydew. In return, they even ...

The ants also protect them from predators. An amazing fact about aphids is that they are born pregnant. Therefore, they ...

Other facts: Black garden ants don’t just hunt food—they farm it. They often live alongside colonies of aphids, which secrete a substance called honeydew that ants eat. The ants “milk” the ...

dead invertebrates and the aphids that offer them honeydew. For reasons unknown, they are also called horse ants, but these are not ‘our’ wood ants. Native to Eurasia, they range from Scandinavia to ...

Other ant species herd aphid 'cattle', which they eat and also milk for honeydew, a plant sap excreted by the aphids. They even have their own ‘fences’ to prevent the aphids from straying away.

72, No. 1, Mar., 1989 Impact of the Imported Fire Ant on Labor... Impact of the Imported Fire Ant on Laboratory Populations of Cotton Aphid (Aphis gossypii) Predators This is the metadata section.

Several fruit and vegetable scraps, including orange peels, can be added to your soil as compost. Orange peels enrich the ...