A rare Japanese ant is the only species known to lack female workers and males; all of its young develop into parasitic ...

Scent is essential to ant society: every ant within a colony wears the badge of membership in the form of smelly hydrocarbons ...

Temnothorax kinomurai, a parasitic ant species found in Japan, reproduces asexually and all of its young develop into queens ...

Biologist E.O. Wilson once wrote that "ants are the most warlike of all animals," noting that clashes between ant colonies dwarfed the human battles at Waterloo and Gettysburg. But sometimes ant ...

The craziest Ant War has broken out in Pantdora, my 1000 gallon rainforest floor vivarium. A glass bridge attaches to Pantdora to an upper tree canopy vivarium called Orchadia, and both tanks combined ...

Scientists say they have for the first time unlocked how a parasitic ant uses chemical warfare to take over the nest of a different species, by tricking workers into an unlikely assassination.The ...

According to a new study out of Rockefeller University, the way that ant colonies make group decisions closely mimics the way neurons behave in the human brain. In other words, they follow a colony ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. Why some ant colonies get tricked into killing their own queens Biologist E.O.