Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Click here to read my affiliate policy. Ants farm aphids. They care for them, offer protection, and literally “farm” them – much like humans farm their ...

Want to get your kids interested in the Earth without spending big bucks? Think small. Like ant-size small. For the price of a couple of dollar-store jars (or for free if you reuse jelly or pasta ...

Species of ants that practice a complex form of fungi agriculture developed their knack for farming about 50 million years ago and have employed several different, successful strategies to culture ...

Ants have farmed fungi for 66 million years, according to new work in the journal Science. It's a relationship that flourished after the demise of the dinosaurs, says Ted Schultz of the Smithsonian.

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You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the “Circle of Life” song at the beginning of the 1994 Disney animated film ...

Humans began to farm about 11,000 years ago, when temperatures around the planet warmed, and people could settle down and start to grow plants. But we don't have a monopoly on agriculture; ants ...

Fungus-farming ants have evolved a remarkable solution to the danger of excess carbon dioxide inside their nests – which ...