While animal mothers are known to sometimes dispatch of their young, very few animals will kill their own mother: the care ...

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

Dispatch is full of superheroes and villains bursting with personality, but their roots can be traced to various comic book ...

Queens of some ant species have evolved an unusually hostile mode for colony takeover: they infiltrate colonies of other ant ...

Invasive ants disrupt bee feeding, trigger fights, reduce nectar return to hives, and may shape long term bee behavior and ...

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.

In an ant colony, the queen is dying, under attack by her own daughters. Meanwhile, the true enemy — an invader queen from ...

Researchers report on a behavioral phenomenon where parasitic ants trick a host colony into killing its own queen. In this ...

Scientists say they have for the first time unlocked how a parasitic ant uses chemical warfare to take over the nest of a ...

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

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

Giuseppe Battaglia walks in his beautiful garden on the outskirts of Avola, on Sicily’s southeastern coast. He is wearing long socks and sneakers, despite the September sun and 30-degree-Celsius ...