You may be surprised to learn that humans are not the only farmers on the planet. Some animals farm other species to obtain a product they desire. Meet the Argentine ant and hop onto this clip to take ...

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 ...

While humans may think of agriculture as a uniquely human achievement, ants have been farming their own food for millions of years, a new study has revealed. Researchers found that ants began ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Humans began farming thousands of years ago, but a new study co-authored by two LSU professors says ants had us beat by millions of years. In a paper published today in the journal Science, scientists ...

'Weed early and often' is the key to a productive garden. Interestingly, certain species of ants are also avid gardeners, a practice they've refined over 50 million years. They too weed their ...

Ants – with their wise farming practices and efficient navigation techniques – could inspire solutions for some human problems. From The Conversation, by Scott Solomon, Associate Teaching Professor of ...

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 ...

Ant farmers tend fungus gardens Schultz has been studying fungus-farming ants, including leaf-cutters, for more than 35 years to try to figure out how this unusual behavior evolved. To trace the ...