Ant mothers are the queens of tough love. They simply don't have time to coddle their sick young. If a newly hatched black ...

Ant queens in colonies of black garden ants (Lasius niger) do exactly this, devouring their sick young to recycle their ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s good to be the queen—the ant queen, that is—because mating does wonders for her immune system. When exposure ...

CHILD #1:How would an ant be born? ADAM:How would an ant be born? Well inside a colony there's a queen, she's a really big ant and she lays all the eggs that produce all of the ants in the colony.

NARRATOR:'In a leafcutter colony there is a queen ant, and she is much bigger than the other ants. And her job is to lay eggs. NARRATOR:'Then there are lots of different types of worker ant.

The tough love of the surviving queens doesn’t stop at cannibalism. Researchers also observed queen ants spraying the infected larvae with acidic venom before feasting, which may help kill ...

You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the “Circle of Life” song at the ...

"The queen is at least 11 times bigger than a worker ant." "The queen comes back to land and she cuts off her wings, digs a hole and won't eat for at least a month," she explained. "She digests ...

In the few weeks before the swarming event happens, you may see heaps of soil appearing above the nests. Ants live in a caste system, where individuals have specific jobs. The queen lays the eggs ...

Both species are small in stature, but hundreds of their queen ants can inhabit a single nest, enabling a colony to grow at an explosive rate. The invasive ants have entered human habitats ...

We updated this guide with advice on minimizing the mess cleaning up spills when using our top pick for ant control. September 2024 We don’t want ants in our homes, either. But if you try to ...

Foraging fire ants, potentially one of the biggest biosecurity threats to Australia, have been found by specialised detection ...