The best way to get rid of ants in your kitchen is to make sure you don't attract them in the first place. Wilkinson suggests ...

focal point/Shutterstock.com If you are worried about ants in your garden, just reach for the bottle of vinegar in your ...

Vigilantly monitor the exterior walls nearest your kitchen ... similar to a mini volcano, or appear as sand mounds on patios. When you spot sugar ants in your home, start with natural repellent ...

These ants originally came from South America but are now found in many southern U.S. states. They flourish in warm, areas like fields and parks. Fire ants build big nests and are immensely ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

Simply placing as few as four live ants into a container of milk provides enough microbes, enzymes and acids to kickstart the fermentation process that creates yogurt. Today, most yogurts are ...

This reaches the peak of sophistication in the leafcutter ants, which cut foliage and return it to feed their fungi, which in turn form specialized growths that are harvested for food. But other ...

Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ancestors of today’s ants. In fact, the climatic upheaval that rocked Earth ...

An army of ants overtook my sleeve of cookies ... Some of us use venomous liquids to discourage these impudent intruders from the kitchen floor and counter. Others believe insecticide sprays will ...

Help us keep bring these critical stories to light. Your support makes all the difference. Ants started farming 66 million years ago in the aftermath of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs ...

How should I get rid of ants? Usually you don't need to bother. Where their activity has loosened plants, firm the plants back into the soil and water well. Good watering tends to discourage ants, as ...

When you reminisce about Command and Conquer, you likely don’t think about ants. After all ... either at the pub or cooking up a storm in the kitchen.