Spring can be a busy time in our gardens. The emerging green shoots and blooming bulbs always lift the spirits, and there's ...

The presence of aphids and ants in the garden does not indicate anything good. These two species live in symbiosis and can ...

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 ...

Jensen acknowledges there is always a risk when introducing any species—ants new to an area could push out other beneficial species, for example, or attract aphids, those small green plant-damaging ...

Argentine ants have been found on six continents, from South America to Japan. Researchers are studying their impact.

In nature, species will sometimes form unexpectedly close bonds and work to their mutual benefit. Symbiotic relationships are the close associations formed between pairs of species. They come in a ...

Nature has a way of keeping things interesting, and not always in the smartest way. Plenty of animals don’t make the best ...

For example, aphids living on the trees may excrete the fungus's defense substance in their honeydew and therefore be visited less by ants. Endophytes are microorganisms that live inside plants.

For example, aphids living on the trees may excrete the fungus's defense substance in their honeydew and therefore be visited less by ants. In a new study published in Ecology Letters, researchers ...

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 ...

If you're not a fan of pesticides but are fed up with slugs and snails munching away at your prized plants and crops, you may ...

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.