A new study expanded on a seemingly impossible scenario in which wood ants survived while trapped for years in an abandoned nuclear weapons bunker in Poland. The wooded area around the former Soviet ...

Wood ants are common in coniferous, mixed and deciduous forests of the Palaearctic ecozone. We conducted a survey of wood-ant mounds in an area of 1400 ha in the Białowieża Forest (NE Poland) and ...

Annales Zoologici Fennici, Vol. 42, No. 3, The Role of Red Wood Ants in Carbon and Nutrient Dynamics of Forest Ecosystems (2005), pp. 201-212 (12 pages) Formica lugubris and F. paralugubris are ...

Set out baits labeled for carpenter ants. Baits can be effective because ants share food with each other, says Benson. Place them outside your home where you see ants foraging or entering the home.

Researchers found that after multiple hybridization events between two wood ant species distinct hybrid populations evolved independently towards the same direction, suggesting hybridization is ...

I have been seeing some large and small black ants in my kitchen over the last few days and have also noticed them crawling up the trunk of one of my old maple trees. There appears to be sawdust at ...

The reproductive monopoly of the ant queen is not as strong as is often thought. Dr. Heikki Helanterä and Prof. Lotta Sundström, biologists working at the University of Helsinki, Finland, investigated ...