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

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As if stealing the new queen's throne wasn't enough, these parasitic ants trick the workers into killing their own queen.

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

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Effect of fungi Beauveria bassiana and Trichoderma harzianum against colonies of A. sexdens. The colonies of A. sexdens, containing approximately 350.0 cm 3 of fungus garden, were distributed into ...