These little black insects are usually a sign that your home is being invaded by carpenter ants. The wood-destroying insects ...

A reader in Fairfax Station, Va. A: Carpenter ants can cause serious structural damage to a house, so it’s smart to be concerned. These unusually large ants — often a quarter to half an inch ...

However, carpenter bees like to make their nests by drilling holes in wood, which can be problematic if their wood source ...

From prevention to removal, we talked with the experts to learn exactly how to get rid of ants in the kitchen fast.

Sugar ants are one of the most common types of house ants, but you may also find carpenter ants or fire ants in and around your home. Carpenter ants are large, black ants that tend to build nests ...

Besides being a nuisance, ants can transport diseases and cause structural damage to your house. Using chemicals to get rid of ants may be effective but not always safe, especially if you have ...

The spray has a refreshing scent that kept our house smelling good while driving ... we did find that it was not as effective on carpenter ants. We also found that it was necessary to reapply ...

This reaches the peak of sophistication in the leafcutter ants, which cut foliage and return it to feed their fungi, which in turn form specialized growths that are harvested for food. But other ...

Ants have been farming fungi since shortly after an asteroid triggered a mass extinction 66 million years ago, according to a ...

Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ancestors of today’s ants. In fact, the climatic upheaval that rocked Earth ...

A philosopher journeys into the world of comparative thanatology, which explores how animals of all kinds respond to death ...

Help us keep bring these critical stories to light. Your support makes all the difference. Ants started farming 66 million years ago in the aftermath of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs ...