Invasive "crazy ants" are displacing fire ants in areas across the southeastern United States, according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin. It's the latest in a history of ant invasions ...

Biology - Ecology

May 16, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers made up of two behavioral ecologists from the University of Lausanne and a robotics engineer from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has developed a novel way to ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 19, 2013 4.7 / 5 (11) 5 |

(Phys.org) —Ants have long been known to choose the shortest of several routes to a food source, but what happens when the shortest route is not the fastest? This situation can occur, for example, when ...

Other Sciences - Mathematics

Apr 01, 2013 4.8 / 5 (18) 24 |

Invasive animals are often most abundant in habitats impacted by humans, especially man-made habitats, such as roadsides, suburban and urban developments, and areas of intensive agricultural activity. Understanding ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 05, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

If you're a sagebrush and your nearby kin is being eaten by a grasshopper, deer, jackrabbit, caterpillar or other predator, it's good to be closely related. Through volatile (chemical) cues, your kin will ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 14, 2013 4.8 / 5 (4) 0 |

Researchers have discovered a social chromosome in the highly invasive fire ant that helps to explain why some colonies allow for more than one queen ant, and could offer new solutions for dealing with this ...

Biology - Biotechnology

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(Phys.org)—Their name is comical, but when crazy ants infest a neighborhood it's no laughing matter.

Biology - Plants & Animals

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A new species of phorid fly from Thailand is the smallest fly ever discovered. At just 0.40 millimeters in length, it is 15 times smaller than a house fly and five times smaller than a fruit fly.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jul 02, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

The red imported fire ant, one of the most horrifying of the foreign species that have established themselves in the United States, appears to be in retreat.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 04, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For years, scientists have tried to use environmentally friendly fungi to control fire ant infestations.

Biology - Biotechnology

Feb 01, 2012 3.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Kudzu, a green leafy vine native to China and Japan brought to the United States in the 19th century, has long been cursed by farmers and timber producers for the property and crop damage it can cause.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 27, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

Genes essential to producing the developmental differences displayed by social insects evolve more rapidly than genes governing other aspects of organismal function, a new study has found.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 19, 2011 4.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Each December a hardy flock of birdwatchers scatters across Mecklenburg County in North Carolina for the National Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count, which has tracked bird movements for more than a century.

Biology - Ecology

May 11, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

The ants may go marching one by one, but they end up forming a superstructure of thousands -- and together they can form a raft that stretches the boundaries of the laws of physics, according to new research ...

Physics - General Physics

Apr 25, 2011 4.6 / 5 (16) 20 |

Red imported fire ant invasions around the globe in recent years can now be traced to the southern U.S., where the nuisance insect gained a foothold in the 1930s, new University of Florida research has found.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 24, 2011 4.7 / 5 (3) 1 |