The black parasitic ant tricks the workers into attacking their amber queen. Current Biology / Takasuka et al. Ants are no strangers to violence. Sometimes, an outsider queen will attack a colony’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An intruding Lasius orientalis queen (left) gains access to the host queen of L. flavus for first contact. - Yuji Tanaka/Current ...

Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on their own mother. By Rebecca Dzombak Rebecca Dzombak previously reported on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The great green bush-cricket. Interloper animals that live in ant colonies are known as ant guests. These include some species of ...

An ant colony is a very cooperative society. Thousands of ants march in line, collect food, defend their nest, and take care of their queen. Everything inside that nest is based on order, recognition, ...

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 ...

In the ruthless world of parasitic ants, taking over a host colony is a matter of life and death. The conventional understanding has been that an invading queen must physically fight and kill the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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