Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a ...

No creature embodies the idea that “it takes a village” quite like ants. Using chemical signals and other ephemeral ...

Keep your lawn maintained. “If you’re mowing regularly, the ants don’t like it,” says Benson. “Mowing helps disrupt developing mounds.” Eliminate obvious food sources. Clean up fallen fruit and ...

Hot temperatures can be just as dangerous for insects as they are for humans—and they can drive insects into your house for survival. Extreme heat can also cause bugs to breed more frequently, so a ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...

Cornmeal has been suggested by some as a tool to help resolve ant infestations. However, pest control pros say it won't kill, ...

Find out where the ants are getting into the house by following their trails or looking for gaps to the exterior, then caulk those holes or plug them up with petroleum jelly. Then try laying down ant ...

Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their hosts.

Decapitator flies lay their larvae inside the ant's thorax. The ant then has just a few weeks to live before its eaten from the inside out. . | Credit: armi fauzi / 500px via Getty Images ...

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The Brahminy blind snake's diet consists mainly of ant larvae, insect larvae, eggs, and sometimes earthworms. Being fossorial reptiles, they live a majority of their life underground but come out ...

(A) Ants with a round aphid excreting honeydew. (B) Flat aphids (arrows) in a brood chamber among ant larvae. (C) Flat aphid probing an ant larva. (D) Hemolymph leaking from an ant larva subjected ...