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 ...

The biological sex of an ant is determined by whether an individual ant is haploid or diploid. In other words, it depends on whether they have one set or two sets of chromosomes in the nuclei of their ...

The Guam Department of Agriculture is developing a plan to keep little fire ants out of a conservation forest along Cross ...

In a stunning discovery, European ant queens display extraordinary reproductive strategy. Messor ibericus queens can produce males belonging to two species. This remarkable finding was recently ...