Scientists document a rare form of social parasitism in which invading queens weaponize chemistry and worker ants to dethrone ...
Some ants kill the queens of another species and take over their colonies, but we now know at least one species gets workers ...
Starting a colony is a dangerous enterprise - so some ants find creative and brutal techniques to take over other queens’ ...
While animal mothers are known to sometimes dispatch of their young, very few animals will kill their own mother: the care ...