"By warning the colony of their deadly infection, terminally ill ants help the colony remain healthy and produce daughter colonies, which indirectly pass on the signaler’s genes to the next generation ...

In a remarkable display of self-sacrifice, baby ants infected with a deadly fungus deliberately signal worker ants to kill them. This extreme measure prevents the spread of disease, protecting the ...

Ant colonies survive because individuals are willing to die. New research shows that some of the most vulnerable members, immobile pupae sealed in their cocoons, can sense when they are fatally ...

Do you ever feel as if you could do your bosses' jobs better than they can? Or do you ever think about marching into a whole new career? If so, new research from the University of Arizona suggests ...

Imagine being so dedicated to your family that you would ask them to kill you to keep everyone else safe. It sounds unbelievable, but that is exactly what baby ants do when they are infected by a ...

(1) The size and structure of colonies of Myrmica sabuleti Meinert living at two well-grazed grassland sites have been investigated for several years by the excavation of colonies. One site was on ...