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.

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

Earth's most successful creatures, ants, form vast, organized societies. The Argentine ant, however, has created an ...

A traveler at Detroit Metropolitan Airport unknowingly brought some surprising hitchhiking pests with them to Romulus.