A mother's love isn't necessarily universal across the animal kingdom, with some mothers even resorting to eating children who aren't quite up to scratch. Ant queens in colonies of black garden ants ...
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 ...
A rare ant species endemic to Japan has been found to be the only kind that lacks both workers and males, consisting exclusively of queens. Ant colonies typically consist of reproductive females, also ...