Question: How do we get rid of leaf-cutter ants? — C.H., Cherokee, Texas A Texas leaf cutter ant carrying a leaf that it has removed from a plant. ((File Photo)) Answer: The Texas leaf-cutter ants are ...

Biologists have found new types of specialized fungal parasites that attack the nests of leaf-cutter ants and their relatives. The discovery could provide clues for controlling the agricultural and ...

A natural product made by bacteria helps thwart pathogenic fungi from destroying Brazilian leaf-cutter ants’ food supply. Researchers led by Mônica T. Pupo, at the University of São Paulo, and Jon ...

Question: We have a problem with cutter ants. I lose my entire crape myrtle tree every year. All of the pest control personnel I ask do not have a solution. Can you please suggest something to ...

Q: Our hopseed bushes suddenly had no leaves, and we think it is from leaf-cutter ants. We also noticed our palo verde tree near their mound has no leaves. Attached are pictures. There are a few ...

Q: We have a problem with ants that denude various plants in our yard. We used diatomaceous earth heavily last year but without much effect. Is there anything else we can use that would be effective ...

To Costa Ricans, the leaf-cutter ant can be one of the biggest pests to cause severe agricultural decay in parts of the country. To tourists, a trail of the hard-working red insects can appear as a ...

New research shows that garbage piles produced by leaf-cutter ants emit significant amounts of nitrous oxide—a potent greenhouse gas. Chemical reactions within the organic waste piles produced by leaf ...

This image highlights the whitish cuticular coating present on the ant Ac. echinatior. (Credit: T.R.S., in a study published by Nature Communications, via Courthouse News) PARIS (AFP) — A well-known ...

In the late ‘90s, Cameron Currie, now a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin, traversed through the Panamanian rainforest to observe the world’s most ancient agriculturalists: leaf ...

Leaf-cutter ants are named for their Herculean feats: they chomp foliage and carry unwieldy pieces, like green flags many times their size, long distances to their colonies. There they chew up the ...