Ants, the most common insects in the world, are an essential part of our ecosystem. They're also a big nuisance. Here's ...

“These ants are amazing organisms. They cut leaves and they use that leaf material to grow a fungus for food,” explained Cameron Currie, lead researcher and a biochemistry and biomedical ...

Surprising the scientific community, graduate student Cameron Currie discovered a mold that threatens to kill the fungi, and the antibiotic which the ants produce in order to control it.

A leaf-cutter ant worker tends to her fungus garden. These ants grow a fungus, which feeds the entire colony, using leaves that the ants harvest from the surrounding rainforest. This image relates ...

The ants and the bacteria and fungi on their legs secrete antibiotic substances that prevented apple rot fungus from growing on the part of the agar plate that the ants had access to. On the left ...

Acrobat ants (Crematogaster genus ... you should be able to bring most infestations under control. While fungus gnats look deceptively similar to fruit flies, they're actually not even in the ...

HBO's post-apocalyptic series, "The Last of Us," imagines a world where the parasitic Cordyceps fungus, which typically infects ants and insects, has evolved in such a way that it can control the ...