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

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

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

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

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

Scientists document a new form of host manipulation where an invading, parasitic ant queen "tricks" ant workers into killing ...

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

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

Two winged clonal raider ants stand out against a white background. About a decade ago, scientists observing clonal raider ants spotted something strange: Although the species is known to be queenless ...

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

A team of German scientists has discovered the possible mechanism of how a parasitic tapeworm can allow a certain species of ants to live substantially longer when infected. In addition, the ants are ...

“Our discovery reveals a parasite that is more sophisticated than we originally believed it to be.” Studying hundreds of infected ants in the Bidstrup Forests, in Denmark, scientists painstakingly ...