Sydney: Imagine trying to build a house without a blueprint, finding a shortcut through an unfamiliar city without a map, or governing a large organisation with no leaders and no meetings. It sounds ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Slave-making ant, Polyergus rufescens, Czech Republic© Pavel Krasensky/Shutterstock.com The post The Ant Queen Who Rules by ...

Scientists document a new form of host manipulation where an invading, parasitic ant queen "tricks" ant workers into killing their queen mother. The invading ant integrates herself into the nest by ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. The scientist E.O. Wilson once wrote that ants are the most warlike of all ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The parasitic queen (Lasius orientalis) accepted by the host workers (Lasius flavus) shortly after matricide was committed. Takku ...

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Nature can get downright brutal in the most unexpected ways—especially when parasites are involved. For the well-organized society of ants, some parasites are known to topple the existing social order ...

Ants are seen as some of the hardest-working creatures, tending to put their colonies above themselves. However, one species of ant is incapable of caring for itself on the most basic level. Therefore ...