ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Predatory beetles can detect the unique alarm signal released by ants that are under attack by parasitic flies, and the beetles use those overheard conversations to guide their ...

Other ant attackers include Apocephalus, a type of ant-decapitating fly, shown attacking a soldier Pheidole dentata ant, and the larva of the moth Ippa conspersa, seen assaulting a worker of a ...

Not only are beetle larvae able to polish off plenty of green coffee scale, they also get an inadvertent assist from the ants. In the course of shooing off parasitic wasps that attack scale, the ...

What Does an Ant Sound Like? Posted 10.27.16; NOVA; Ant language sounds wacky—and can be hacked. Learn more in this episode of Gross Science.

Australian research has revealed that the tremendous diversity of ladybird beetle species is linked to their ability to produce larvae which, with impunity, poach members of "herds" of tiny, soft ...

The ants, Azteca instabilis, have a natural history like that of many other ants. A queen establishes a colony in a tree, and once the colony reaches a certain size it splits and a satellite ...

Each zombifies a different species of ants or attacks other insects. ... If a beetle larva makes contact with a spore, it invades the insect’s body and feeds on its muscle.

Marazzi says it would be interesting to see if the adult flea beetles benefit from ants attacking other insects, which would make the interaction more complex. Nature Plants DOI: 10.1038/nplants ...