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

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

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

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

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 use a natural pathogen and ant behavior to collapse invasive tawny crazy ant colonies and help restore ecosystems.