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Worker ants perform important tasks like gathering food, taking care of eggs and larvae and nest building. However, some species of ants cannot produce workers through reproductive means with their ...

Scientists document a new form of host manipulation where an invading, parasitic ant queen “tricks” ant workers into killing their queen mother. The invading ant integrates herself into the nest by ...

Scientists say they have for the first time unlocked how a parasitic ant uses chemical warfare to take over the nest of a different species, by tricking workers into an unlikely assassination. The ...

When the queen dies, Jerdon's jumping ants duel to select their next leader. Kalyanvarma via Wikimedia Commons [CC BY-SA 4.0] Most ants will spend their lives working to support the colony and their ...

Matthew Sparks receives funding from a PhD studentship through an EPSRC UKRI Doctoral Training Partnership between Swansea University and Rentokil Initial under the name 'Characterisation and ...

The unusual life cycles of ants are deeply rooted in their social nature. Ants and other social insects like termites, some bees, and certain wasps live in colonies, in which most individuals never ...

In a forest floor coup that sounds almost fictional, a newly described parasitic ant has evolved a way to make loyal workers turn on their own mother and clear the throne for an invader. The discovery ...