One way to get rid of invasive fire ants, and to protect yourself against their nasty stings, may be to eat them. Fire ants are a venomous group of ants, found around the world. Solenopsis invicta, ...

Sometimes, no matter what kitchen cleaning magic tricks you have up your sleeve, ants will still show up to share your food, whether you like it or not. If you don't catch ants in time, there's a ...

Occurred on November 17, 2024 / Umkumbe Bush Lodge, Roodepoort, South Africa Info from Licensor: "This hornbill was most likely sick and not feeling well. It sat on an ant nest. The ants took this ...

Ever since Ume the Malayan tapir was born at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington, last month, the baby ...

Ant‐eating spiders represent a fascinating model of trophic specialisation and adaptive evolution. These predators exhibit a narrow dietary spectrum (myrmecophagy), targeting specific ant taxa by ...

Scientists put trail cameras on Pulau Ubin island and recorded an endangered Malayan tapir over several months, photos show. Photo from Marcus A. H. Chua On an island in Singapore, an endangered ...

It’s hard being a plant leaf - being eaten is a major risk. In tropical forests, ~10-15% (>70% in some species) of leaf area can be lost via herbivory (Cardenas et al., 2014; Coley & Barone, 1996).

If you were to design the strangest diet possible, eating nothing but ants and termites would probably make the shortlist. Yet over the past 66 million years, mammals across the globe have repeatedly ...