The unusual life cycles of ants are deeply rooted in their social nature. Ants and other social insects like termites, some ...

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

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

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

Scientists discovered a parasitic ant queen that hacks colony odors to trigger queen murder, exposing a rare form of chemical manipulation.

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

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

Queens of some ant species have evolved an unusually hostile mode for colony takeover: they infiltrate colonies of other ant ...

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

Playing dead is a common defense mechanism in the animal kingdom, but scientists in Australia have discovered an example on a whole new scale. Entire colonies of ants were found to be feigning death, ...

Think of it as mathematics with a bite: Researchers at CU Boulder have uncovered the statistical rules that govern how gigantic colonies of fire ants form bridges, ladders and floating rafts. In the ...