Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into ...
Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on ...
During the original queen’s downfall, the parasitic ant will even retreat and hide as the workers kill their leader. In some ...
A new study published in Current Biology documented the queen of an ant species dethroning the queen of another species using ...
Researchers have discovered parasitic ant queens that use natural "chemical weapons" to trick ants from rival colonies.
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'Nothing but a nightmare': Worker ants are tricked into murdering their mom by an imposter queen — who quickly takes the throne for herself
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.
A sneaky, stealthy parasite queen can turn an ant colony against itself. Newly-mated queens of two parasitic ant species have ...
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Parasitic ant tricks workers into killing their queen, then usurps her
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.
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 ...
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