A sneaky, stealthy parasite queen can turn an ant colony against itself. Newly-mated queens of two parasitic ant species have ...

Parasitic ants have developed a method to take over colonies with rulers too strong to defeat by direct attack. They use a ...

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

During the original queen’s downfall, the parasitic ant will even retreat and hide as the workers kill their leader. In some ...

They explained that in the ruthless world of parasitic ants, taking over a host colony is a matter of life and death.

Lasius orientalis and Lasius umbratus—invade and overtake a host ant colony. In both cases, the parasitic ant queen invades the nest and sprays the host colony queen with what is likely formic acid.

Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into ...

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

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

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

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

When bumble bees fight invasive Argentine ants for food, bees may win an individual skirmish but end up with less to feed the ...