While ant queen violence is well-known, scientists recently documented the first evidence of parasite-induced matricide ...

Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into ...

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 ...

When the queen dies, Jerdon's jumping ants duel to select their next leader. Kalyanvarma via Wikimedia Commons [CC BY-SA 4.0] Most ants will spend their lives working to support the colony and their ...

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

This pattern deviated from previously known forms of parasitism in ant colonies, which typically had the invading queen ...

Is it all in the hips? Scientists break down woodpeckers' head-hammering moves. Plus, what makes one ant a queen and another ...

Whether fire ants bow to one queen or accept many rulers depends on one long strand of genes, a new study finds. The gene sequence is the first "social chromosome" ever discovered, according to study ...