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

Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on ...

Scientists document a new form of host manipulation where an invading, parasitic ant queen "tricks" ant workers into killing ...

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

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

Scientists document a new form of host manipulation where an invading, parasitic ant queen "tricks" ant workers into killing their queen mother. The ...

Earth's most successful creatures, ants, form vast, organized societies. The Argentine ant, however, has created an astonishing supercolony spanning t ...

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

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

Stinging ants that leave their victims with burning pain and are known to disrupt electrical and communication networks have been found in Bermuda, prompting a warning to residents from authorities.

In 1959, Adolf Butenandt and his team discovered the first pheromone, bombykol, a chemical released by female silkworm moths ...

Archaeologists studied Semiyarka, dubbed The City of Seven Ravines, a settlement from 1600 BC that may have been a powerhouse ...