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 ...
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.
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