According to a new study published in Current Biology on Monday, Nov. 17, several species of parasitic ants have evolved a ...

Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into ...

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

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

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

A new study published in Current Biology documented the queen of an ant species dethroning the queen of another species using ...

While ant queen violence is well-known, scientists recently documented the first evidence of parasite-induced matricide ...

A sneaky, stealthy parasite queen can turn an ant colony against itself. Newly-mated queens of two parasitic ant species have ...

Starting a colony is a dangerous enterprise - so some ants find creative and brutal techniques to take over other queens’ ...

The unusual life cycle of ants reflects their social behavior, with some individuals foregoing reproduction to tend to the ...