Ants love to invade garden spaces and can quickly move from your shrubbery into your home. Once they have made a home in your space, it can be difficult to get rid of them. Prevention is a better ...

"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns," poet Kahlil Gibran once wrote. But what if the rose is growing amidst... ants? Yuck! While roses are one of the most popular additions to home ...

MOST flowers don’t want pesky ants hanging around scaring away would-be pollinators. Not so the Singapore rhododendron – the first flower found to recruit ants to chase poor pollinators away.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. JANE: One tough plant is naked lady or belladonna lily (Amaryllis belladonna), which is also called ...

There are no pests that snip the flowers off our vegetables. When flowers disappear, it's because the plant is dropping them. Plants don't set all their flowers; some will always fall without making ...

A small Japanese flower, Vincetoxicum nakaianum, uses a clever trick to reproduce. It smells like injured ants, attracting flies that normally feed on wounded insects. These flies then help pollinate ...

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