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

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

Some ants kill the queens of another species and take over their colonies, but we now know at least one species gets workers ...

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

Newly mated parasitic queen ants invade colonies and spray their victims with a chemical irritant that provokes the workers to kill their mother.

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

The reproductive monopoly of the ant queen is not as strong as is often thought. Dr. Heikki Helanterä and Prof. Lotta Sundström, biologists working at the University of Helsinki, Finland, investigated ...

THIS is the remarkable moment a cunning ant manages to invade a nest and trick workers into killing the queen – only to take ...

Is it all in the hips? Scientists break down woodpeckers' head-hammering moves. Plus, what makes one ant a queen and another ...

Insect queens were thought to have an egg-laying monopoly, but nine wood ant species revealed widespread reproductive activity by worker ants. Genetic analysis showed that as many as one in four eggs ...