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

During the original queen’s downfall, the parasitic ant will even retreat and hide as the workers kill their leader. In some ...

Researchers have discovered parasitic ant queens that use natural "chemical weapons" to trick ants from rival colonies.

Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on ...

A new study published in Current Biology documented the queen of an ant species dethroning the queen of another species using ...

A sneaky spray of chemicals makes ant workers turn on their own mother — the queen — so a parasitic invader can take over the ...

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

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

A sneaky, stealthy parasite queen can turn an ant colony against itself. Newly-mated queens of two parasitic ant species have ...

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

This pattern deviated from previously known forms of parasitism in ant colonies, which typically had the invading queen ...

Lasius orientalis and Lasius umbratus—invade and overtake a host ant colony. In both cases, the parasitic ant queen invades the nest and sprays the host colony queen with what is likely formic acid.