After a mild past winter, the ant population here is growing. Here's what you can do before ants come marching in one by one (hurrah, hurrah).

Here are some general tips from entomologist Wayne White to minimize pest issues -- and ants in particular. This is a story about a party girl. Her name is Tapinoma Sessile, and her story is an ...

Magnified view of a ghost ant - a common pest in Florida houses each spring and again in the fall. Specimen: CASENT0008659. If we’re getting technical, the official name is Tapinoma ...

Stock image of Tapinoma magnum ants attacking an earthworm. These ants are an invasive species in France, and are spreading rapidly across the country. Stock image of Tapinoma magnum ants ...

A pair of ant researchers used a public sniff test to try to identify the tantalizing fragrance of Tapinoma sessile, the odorous house ant: C. Penick & A. Smith. 2015. The True Odor of the Odorous ...

Odorous house ants (Tapinoma sessile) have long been regarded as smelling like coconut, or sometimes like rotten butter. But when Penick sniffed one for the first time, he was hit by the scent of ...

Urban Ecologist Sylvana Ross visits Baltimore, Maryland to find Tapinoma Sessile, the odorous house ant. Ross’ research is focused on ants and how they respond to different environments within a ...

These ants, known as Tapinoma magnum, are not your average backyard pests. They’re invaders from the Mediterranean, and they’re making themselves at home in German towns and cities.

Aggressive ants of the Tapinoma magnum species are spreading in Germany, destroying sidewalks, invading homes, and paralysing the internet. The Tapinoma magnum ant, which originates from the ...

But if you crush a member of the ant species Tapinoma sessile,you might catch a whiff of a strange smell—a smell that reminds some people of blue cheese, rancid butter or rotten coconut.

In the experiment, the researchers collected caterpillars of the species Juditha molpe, which live in harmony with ants of the species Dolichoderus bispinosus, and caterpillars of the species ...

If we’re getting technical, the official name is Tapinoma melanocephalum, sometimes referred to as tramp ants or ghost ants. Depending on where you live in the country can also determine the ...