Imagine a lush forest with tree ferns, their trunks capped by ribbon-like fronds ... reports the discovery of an ancient ...

Set out baits labeled for carpenter ants. Baits can be effective because ants share food with each other, says Benson. Place ...

Termites benefit the environment by breaking down wood debris, but they can cause severe damage to homes. Swarmers, bubbling ...

Fossilized termite nests and coprolites from Early Cretaceous Victoria, Australia, provide the earliest evidence of termites in a polar region, indicating they had dispersed globally by 127 ...

When it’s time to eat, flying ants feed on seeds, tree nectar, food scraps and other insects in and around a home. ... Flying ants and termites both nest outdoors.

Some termites “can completely eat a large tree within a decade,” he says. ... Rotting logs create excellent spots for tree seedlings to grow, and for animal nests, dens and burrows.

The fossilized insects were found preserved in amber. This pair of extinct E. affinis termites was trapped in tree resin almost 40 million years ago and preserved until today in a Baltic amber fossil.

Unlike ants, which run out of their nests en masse and bite, termites are amazingly efficient.” Termites eat, process and excrete organic matter, enriching the quality of the surrounding soil.

Preserved in a 80-centimetre-long piece of fossilised log, the nest tunnels carved out by termites were first spotted by local fossil-hunter extraordinaire Melissa Lowery.