The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world. Droves of ants spray formic acid produced by a venom gland at ...
Hairy wood ants forage on the ground and in trees and will also eat just about anything soft bodied that has the misfortune of getting in their way. Badgers, foxes and green woodpeckers are ...
Hairy wood ants forage on the ground and in trees and will also eat just about anything soft bodied that has the misfortune of getting in their way. Badgers, foxes and green woodpeckers are ...
Indoors, carpenter ants feed on meats and pet food, as well as syrup, honey, sugar, jelly and other sweets. Carpenter ants do not eat wood. They remove wood as they create galleries and tunnels for ...
Wood ants, particularly those in the Formica rufa group, play a crucial role in forest ecosystems as keystone species. They are known for their mound-building behavior and their ability to ...
The resin of conifer trees contains antibiotic chemicals and is harvested by the European wood ant to ... Other ant species herd aphid 'cattle', which they eat and also milk for honeydew, a ...