Ant queens devour sick larvae through cannibalism to prevent disease spread. This process increases egg production by 55%.

All the queens were seen to survive even after eating infected larvae. The researchers suggest this may be due to the queen ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s good to be the queen—the ant queen, that is—because mating does wonders for her immune system. When exposure ...

the Chimera Ant royal guards are the personal elite unit of the Ant Queen, second in authority only to the Queen in the colony. However, aside from being extremely powerful and arrogant ...

CHILD #1:How would an ant be born? ADAM:How would an ant be born? Well inside a colony there's a queen, she's a really big ant and she lays all the eggs that produce all of the ants in the colony.

In a surprising twist from the natural world, queen ants are taking extreme measures to protect their colonies from disease by eating their own infected offspring. According to a new study led by ...

Parasitic ants parasitize other ants using aggression ... The slaves tend brood, gather food, feed their enslavers, care for the queen, and defend the nest against threats. If the colony moves ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

We updated this guide with advice on minimizing the mess cleaning up spills when using our top pick for ant control. September 2024 We don’t want ants in our homes, either. But if you try to ...

A Christmas tree farm in Ohio has unveiled the layout for its 16-acre corn maze set to open later this month, and the design is Taylor Swift (Wheeler Farms Version). The farm, which grows 60,000 ...