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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Trapped in the act 38 million years ago, two termites have revealed how fossilized amber can reveal insights into ancient mating behavior. Scientists were puzzled when they saw an extinct pair of ...

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 ...

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.

How does a fly larva sneak into a termite nest? With a butt shaped like a termite’s head, obviously. An international team of researchers in Morocco has discovered blow fly larvae not just ...

Carpenter ants nest in hollow trees, logs, wooden areas in homes, and landscaping timbers. They use these places as shelters for their eggs and larvae. These ants make colonies when they identify ...

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.