Scientists document a rare form of social parasitism in which invading queens weaponize chemistry and worker ants to dethrone ...

Starting a colony is a dangerous enterprise - so some ants find creative and brutal techniques to take over other queens’ ...

An ant queen doesn't just steal a colony; she convinces thousands of workers to murder their own mother to make her their ...

Some ants kill the queens of another species and take over their colonies, but we now know at least one species gets workers ...

While animal mothers are known to sometimes dispatch of their young, very few animals will kill their own mother: the care ...

Scientists discovered a parasitic ant queen that hacks colony odors to trigger queen murder, exposing a rare form of chemical manipulation.

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide.

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide.

Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into killing their mother.