Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. two ants Some ant queens can produce offspring of more than one species – even when the other species is not known to exist in the ...

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An ant may be responsible for the most painful sting from a bug in the world, but different ants have different lifestyles. In some species, queen ants do the weirdest thing after their dramatic ...

A sneaky, stealthy parasite queen can turn an ant colony against itself. Newly-mated queens of two parasitic ant species have been found to sneak into an ant colony, creep towards the resident ant ...

Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two different ant species. A team ...

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 ...