“By warning the colony of their deadly infection, terminally ill ants help the colony remain healthy and produce daughter ...

Ant pupae that are fatally sick don’t hide their condition; instead, they release a special scent that warns the rest of the ...

Biologist E.O. Wilson once wrote that "ants are the most warlike of all animals," noting that clashes between ant colonies dwarfed the human battles at Waterloo and Gettysburg. But sometimes ant ...

Earth's most successful creatures, ants, form vast, organized societies. The Argentine ant, however, has created an astonishing supercolony spanning thousands of miles across Southern Europe. Billions ...

Scientists say they have for the first time unlocked how a parasitic ant uses chemical warfare to take over the nest of a different species, by tricking workers into an unlikely assassination. The ...

A sneaky, stealthy parasite queen can turn an ant colony against itself. Newly-mated queens of two parasitic ant species have been found to sneak into an ant colony, creep towards the resident ant ...

Two new studies show how climate influences behavior, communication, and genome evolution—driving adaptation in a ...

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

The black parasitic ant tricks the workers into attacking their amber queen. Current Biology / Takasuka et al. Ants are no strangers to violence. Sometimes, an outsider queen will attack a colony’s ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. The scientist E.O. Wilson once wrote that ants are the most warlike of all ...

Ants use 'chemical warfare' to compel host workers to kill their own queen, reveals new research. Scientists have observed for the first time an invading ant queen using a chemical spray to compel ...