Researchers observed nests created by ants of the Lasius genus and found out how their members attack their own mothers due ...

A new study published in Current Biology documented the queen of an ant species dethroning the queen of another species using ...

THIS is the remarkable moment a cunning ant manages to invade a nest and trick workers into killing the queen – only to take ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide.

MONTPELLIER, France — Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two ...