It can be mixed with a sugary substance to create a DIY formula to disrupt ants' digestive systems and kill colonies. Vinegar and other essential oils like peppermint and tea tree are natural ...

“So, for me, a fungus that could infect an insect and change its behavior seemed like the ultimate complex thing that a microbe could do. I was super fascinated by it.” We got an idea of the fungal ...

Learning how to kill an ant nest but not your lawn is the key to ... open up a proverbial can of worms by allowing other pests or fungus to settle in its place. Where our experts have recommended ...

These ants aren’t eating the leaves they carry—they use plant matter to cultivate a special fungus in their underground chambers. It’s like farming, but instead of growing vegetables, they grow the ...

These alien ants can change the dynamics of an ecosystem, consume resources, and kill other organisms ... They typically eat nectar, seeds, fungus, or insects. However, some species have diets ...

What they're actually doing is taking these leaves back into the nest and once they're there, they use the leaves to grow a fungus. ADAM:'Leaf cutter ants, despite their name, don't eat leaves.

It’s good to be the queen—the ant queen, that is—because mating ... The researchers cultured a fungus that, in the wild, kills insects in about a week. They first administered a weak ...

A fungus not yet known to modern science was recently discovered in a remote savanna in the Northern Territory. Zombie ants have been discovered in the Aussie outback. A fungus not yet known to ...