Ant colonies are one of the wonders of nature: complex, organised… and mysterious. This programme reveals the secret, underground world of the ant colony, in a way that’s never been seen before. At ...
Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into killing their mother.
A new study published in Current Biology documented the queen of an ant species dethroning the queen of another species using ...
Source: Princeton University Press/with permission. Ants are fascinating and remarkably intelligent insects who live in complex social groups called colonies. 1,2 When I first learned about ant expert ...
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Game of tiny thrones: Parasitic ants grab power by turning workers against their queen
By Mongabay.com Queens of some ant species have evolved an unusually hostile mode for colony takeover: they infiltrate ...
Zombies are among us. And these tiny undead creatures are everywhere. In this excerpt from "Rise of the Zombie Bugs" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025), author Mindy Weisberger examines the very ...
Everything in the ant hill seems to need the liquid secretions from members of the colony that are in their pupal stage. By Joshua Sokol Orli Snir, a biologist at the Rockefeller University in New ...
Research initiated at a UT field station keeps progressing, in good news for the war on this invasive species.
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