Move over, Pixar. The ants that animators once morphed into googly-eyed caricatures in films such as A Bug’s Life and Antz just received a meticulously precise anatomical reboot. Writing today in ...

We enjoy magnolia trees for their beautiful early spring flowers, but in summer they sometimes get downright ugly. Gardeners may notice a fuzzy black coating on branches or a sticky glaze that ...

The young scientists learn about the life cycle of an ant. The life cycle of ants is described; the queen lays the eggs which ...

Scale insects can be difficult to identify. At a first glance, they look like small bumps on the stems of leaves of your plants, making them easy to mistake as part of the plant itself. But beneath ...

I was asked about scale damage to trees. Scales, relatives of aphids and whiteflies, suck plant juices out of many types of plants. Soft scales exude a sticky residue called honeydew that drips all ...

Colonies decide to flee rising temperatures in much the same way that neural computations give rise to decisions. Temperatures are rising, and one colony of ants will soon have to make a collective ...