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

Most of us associate ants with productivity. You probably imagine them digging tunnels, laying down pheromone trails, hauling ...

Invasive ants disrupt bee feeding, trigger fights, reduce nectar return to hives, and may shape long term bee behavior and ...

The invasive species has found footholds in parts of the state, but Texas scientists are building on new techniques for ...

Bumble bees battling invasive Argentine ants may win individual fights but ultimately lose valuable foraging time, putting ...

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

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

Cinnamon confuses ant navigation by disrupting their scent trails. It doesn't kill ants but forces them to abandon areas they can no longer navigate. Cinnamon's active compound interferes with insects ...

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