The unusual life cycles of ants are deeply rooted in their social nature. Ants and other social insects like termites, some bees, and certain wasps live in colonies, in which most individuals never ...

Biologist E.O. Wilson once wrote that "ants are the most warlike of all animals," noting that clashes between ant colonies dwarfed the human battles at Waterloo and Gettysburg. But sometimes ant ...

An ant colony is a very cooperative society. Thousands of ants march in line, collect food, defend their nest, and take care of their queen. Everything inside that nest is based on order, recognition, ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. Why some ant colonies get tricked into killing their own queens Biologist E.O.