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 ...

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

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

This pattern deviated from previously known forms of parasitism in ant colonies, which typically had the invading queen ...

Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on their own mother.

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

Sicily is on the front line of Europe’s fire ant invasion. If it fails to contain the spread, more countries will be at risk.

They explained that in the ruthless world of parasitic ants, taking over a host colony is a matter of life and death.