As temperatures rise and springtime blooms, many homeowners find themselves facing an age-old nuisance, ant invasions. Here ...

Summer is coming which means so are all the annoying ants in your home and especially in your kitchen. While I normally opt ...

If you weighed every human and all the ants, the scales would balance. The resin of conifer trees contains antibiotic chemicals and is harvested by the European wood ant to disinfect their nests.

Venom isn’t just a feature of some animals; it’s found across the living world, from plants and fungi to bacteria and viruses, says a new study. Lead author William Hayes, an ecologist at Loma Linda ...

before delivering venom-like toxins that allow it to extract nutrients from its host. Like boxing crabs co-opting anemones, a group of plants called ant-plants host stinging ant colonies that ...

According to the study, plants inject toxins into animals through spines, thorns, and stinging hairs, and some also co-exist ...

Our comprehensive search suggests that venom delivery systems fully analogous to those of animals exist among plants, fungi, protists, bacteria, and viruses. Thus, venomous organisms are far more ...