Sprinkling cinnamon or diatomaceous earth around the plant bases can help keep ants away. These act as a natural ant ...

Researchers and Extension entomology specialists across the South work together to develop control strategies for pests such ...

In Britain and Ireland, flying ant days typically occur in July or August, often in warmer urban areas first, when the ...

Ants usually make their nests in soil, leaf litter, or decaying plants. Signs You Have Ants The most common sign that you have ants is seeing them inside your house.

Two ants tunneling in green gel. A new Caltech study found that ants search for and remove loose grains of soil when digging their tunnels, much like humans remove loose blocks while playing Jenga ...

But ants might muck this up. To find out, a group of geologists and archaeologists reached out to Walter Tschinkel, an entomologist at Florida State University.Figuring out how much sand and soil ...

The ants tend to dig relatively straight tunnels that descend at the angle of repose – the slope at which a granular material naturally forms mounds – which was around 40 degrees in this case.