Abundance is a key parameter in microbial ecology, and important to estimates of potential metabolite flux, impacts of dispersal, and sensitivity of samples to technical biases such as laboratory ...

As part of its epic 10-part journey across the American supercontinent, The Americas takes viewers into the heart of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest and a hotbed of biodiversity. It covers ...

Invasive species experts say the eradication of little fire ants on 175 acres in Nahiku is “in sight” after years of efforts to eliminate the painfully stinging pests across a wide swath of thick ...

Ants are famous for their regimented and complex social behaviors. In the tropics, they are also famous for forming mutualisms with plants. Certain species of trees have conspicuous hollow swellings ...

In the middle of the South Pacific, a group of Fijian plants have solved a problem that has long puzzled scientists: How can an organism cooperate with multiple partners that are in turn competing for ...

Leaf-cutter ant nests are biogeochemical hot spots where ants live and import vegetation to grow fungus. Metabolic activity and (in wet tropical forests) soil gas flux to the nest may result in high ...

“We want to find them if they’re here,” said Brooke Mahnken, little fire ant coordinator with the Maui Invasive Species Committee. “But we also hope we don’t.” For three weeks in October, a team of 30 ...

Backyard ants use ancient, targeted antimicrobial strategies that could inspire new ways to fight drug-resistant superbugs in humans.

The Dinoponera gigantea (4 cm) is the largest living ant species, found in the Amazon. The all-time largest was the extinct ...

A conservationist in the Amazon found himself exposed to the rainforest elements as leaf-cutter ants tore his tent to pieces before his very eyes. From lizards with iron-tipped teeth to the ...