Carpenter ants are a common flying ant. It's easy to confuse flying ants—especially a common flying ant species, carpenter ants—with termites. Size won't give you an answer—some carpenter ...

When carpenter ants are in nature, they’re drawn to fallen trees and stumps—any large piece of wood really. The decay that takes over dead or compromised wood outdoors makes it easier to ...

Carpenter ants encompass several species of the genus Campnotus, a group of wood-destroying organisms (WDOs) whose common ...

Scientists have found that after the asteroid wiped out many plants, ants started farming fungi to help them survive and get ...

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Ants began farming fungi 66 million years ago post-asteroid impact, with leafcutter ants evolving advanced agricultural ...

Led by North Carolina State University, the study focused on the mutualistic relationship between specific ant species and ...

A new North Carolina State University study finds that climate change could be destabilizing the mutualistic relationships ...

A study investigates the evolution of beneficial bacteria that live inside and on the surface of farming ants. Attine ants ...

To trace the evolution of this relationship between ants and fungi, Schultz and his colleagues built complex family trees. Using the DNA from 475 species of fungi, including 288 species known to ...