With the arrival of spring, gardeners face the challenge of dealing with pests that can damage plants. A gardening expert has now shared a simple hack to keep ants at bay ...

Ants are an integral part of the ecological web, interacting with other organisms, and contributing to the overall ...

While they're generally treated as pests, ants are actually a jack-of-all-trades in your garden. They till your soil, clean ...

Your concerns about butterflies are valid. Any insecticide used against ants and chinch bugs will hit other non-target insects, too. Since lawns are outdoors, we have to expect they’ll have a variety ...

which is a real turn-off for ants and other pests,” explains Matthew Wilson, gardener at Handy Gardeners. He recommends ...

A fire ant hill is a structure that’s built by ants that are tunneling underground. It’s typically made of sand, soil, and ...

We found that in 71% of cases studied, pesticides kill or harm soil invertebrates like earthworms, ants, beetles and ground-nesting bees. We found negative effects across all studied pesticide classes ...

In a pinch of garden soil, about a gram in weight, live millions of bacteria, representing several thousand species. Most of them are unknown to science. Ants, with more than 12,000 described ...

The invasive pest has already colonised the United States – now recent flooding is raising fears it will do the same in Australia.

THE state’s peak farming group has welcomed a fresh crackdown on biosecurity controls in the wake of ex-tropical Cyclone Alfred. On Friday NSW Agriculture Minister Tara Moriarty announced measures to ...