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

By Mongabay.com Queens of some ant species have evolved an unusually hostile mode for colony takeover: they infiltrate ...

Researchers have discovered parasitic ant queens that use natural "chemical weapons" to trick ants from rival colonies.

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

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

Scientists discovered a parasitic ant queen that hacks colony odors to trigger queen murder, exposing a rare form of chemical manipulation.

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.

Some ants kill the queens of another species and take over their colonies, but we now know at least one species gets workers ...

Newly mated parasitic queen ants invade colonies and spray their victims with a chemical irritant that provokes the workers to kill their mother.

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

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