Army ants scare up a lot of food when they’re on the move, which makes following them valuable for predator birds. But instead of competing and chasing each other off from the ant “raids,” as ...

The email from Trip Lamb, biology professor at Eastern Carolina University, said, “As a velvet ant sting survivor, you may appreciate the attached.” The attachment was a scientific paper titled “The ...

This past week in my office, our summer interns wouldn’t go into their office because of numerous flies all over the place. They were not flies but rather swarming ants. Perhaps you have seen these ...

Are large winged wasp-like insects invading your home? Based on questions coming into the extension office, carpenter ants are swarming. Many people mistake winged carpenter ants for termites, but ...

Editor’s note: Portions of this column previously appeared in 2015 and 2019. The ants are back! We have kept them at bay inside the house, but outside, that is a different matter. A single dropped ...

“Bless ’em all, bless ’em all, the long and the short and the tall …” The line is from a popular World War II marching song. I’m borrowing it to refer to the readers of this column. What inspires me ...