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 ...

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

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.

Researchers observed nests created by ants of the Lasius genus and found out how their members attack their own mothers due ...

In the ruthless world of parasitic ants, taking over a host colony is a matter of life and death. The conventional ...

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

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.

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