Barbara has written professionally for more than two decades. In the past five years, she has specialized in creating real estate and home improvement content. Besides writing for Forbes Home, she ...

Hummingbirds are useful pollinators and can be delightful backyard visitors. Though there are a number of flowering plants attractive to hummingbirds, many people choose to install hummingbird feeders ...

If hummingbirds are flocking to the nectar in your feeder, then you can bet you’re attracting other visitors as well—ants. “Carbohydrates are ants' primary food source, and since nectar is high in ...

With the right pesticide and some intervention tricks, you can get ants out of your home — and make them stay out — this spring and summer. The News & Observer spoke with Sydney Crawley, a North ...

The ant world is an incredible, dangerous, and downright bizarre place. Some ants, though, are a lot cooler and more resourceful than you might give them credit for. Special thanks to Dr. Adrian Smith ...

Using a combination of state-of-the-art evolutionary tools, the paper examines signatures of positive selection on a phylogeny of seven ants and compares these signatures with those detected in other ...

Fire ants, kidnapper ants, honeypot ants and Argentine ants are ruthless! Fire ants bite and sting! They also use their own young to build a terrifying raft during floods. Kidnapper ants steal other ...