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Life in an ant colony is a symphony of subtle interactions between insects acting in concert, more like cells in tissue than independent organisms bunking in a colony. Now, researchers have discovered ...

The larvae of many lycaenid butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) are tended by ants that protect them from natural enemies in return for sugar-rich secretions that the larvae produce to attract and ...

How does an ant colony decide who's fit to become a queen? In most cases, the larger a female ant grows to be, the greater chance it has to be crowned the queen of a colony. In fact, the size of ants ...

Scientists discover that a queen ants of the Messor genus produce males from another species to breed hybrid workers in ...

Ant larvae are fighters. When ant nests are invaded by parasitic ants that hope to wipe out the original residents, larvae may try to protect their family by eating the invaders’ eggs. Some species of ...

Ant mothers are the queens of tough love. They simply don't have time to coddle their sick young. If a newly hatched black garden ant is exposed to a pathogen, researchers in the US have found the ...

The eggs of a parasitic ant queen living off a foreign species may end up as food for the larvae of the host species. In certain ant species, queens invade the colonies of other species, kill the host ...

Perched on the hillsides of the Mezquital Valley in Hidalgo, Mexico, sits a family-run farm called Teotlacualli. While a variety of vegetables are grown here, this farm serves as a base for another ...

Honey pot ants have a unique means of surviving in the deserts where they live—they store excess food in the bodies of some of their workers. Honey pot workers gather food just like any other ant, ...

Life in an ant colony is a symphony of subtle interactions between insects acting in concert, more like cells in tissue than independent organisms bunking in a colony. Now, researchers have discovered ...