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

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

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.

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 ...

An ant colony that survived for years in post-soviet nuclear weapon bunker by turning to cannibalism, has been assisted to freedom. Researchers have successfully evacuated a wood ant colony, of the ...

A colony of pavement ants was found amid the root balls of two small Lebanon trees recently intercepted at Detroit Metro ...

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The researchers tracked the ants' behaviour in the wild as well as in the lab Ant colonies have their own personalities, which are shaped by the environment, a US study suggests. Colonies of several ...

An artist has been criticised after posting a video on Youtube of a sculpture being created by pouring molten aluminium into a fire ant colony mound (Youtube/AnthillArt) Get the latest entertainment ...