The invasive species has found footholds in parts of the state, but Texas scientists are building on new techniques for ...

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 ...

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

Since fire ants first came to the United States in the early 20th century, researchers have searched for ways to control ...

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

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.