Setting up an ant farm may be more complicated than most people assume, from picking out to the ants to maintenance and more. Despite their seeming commonality, ants actually require farms that match ...

Ants farm aphids. They care for them, offer protection, and literally "farm" them – much like humans farm their livestock. Picture ants wearing the frayed straw hat, dirty blue dungarees or coveralls, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — What does it take to elevate the common ant from picnic pest to household pet? To thousands of children and many adults, the answer is a bit of soil and a see-through enclosure that ...

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 ...

A trail of leaf-cutter ants marches along the ground, each transporting leaf fragments much larger than themselves. The leaves are not consumed directly. Rather, they are taken below ground to ...

Jacob Lemanski gazes with pride at an enormous ant farm he built. At least it used to be an ant farm – the diminutive tenants all froze to death during a recent winter storm. But an order of worker ...