I was a chemistry student, my days spent boiling, titrating and stirring. But after that night, I formed a double act with a friend, writing jokes and making a radio show, before heading off to ...

An ant’s life cycle starts as a tiny egg. It hatches into a larva which is like a small worm without eyes or legs. It grows quickly and depends on adult worker ants to feed it. These workers decide ...

A: I have seen some of those videos as well. My reaction is that if someone is stealing from your porch, they should not be able to complain if if turns out to be a booby trap. I also read, if the ...

Entomologist Jessica Purcell calls the learned behavior “a new height of exploitation” Getty Parasitic queen ants infiltrate rival ant colonies and trigger workers to kill their own queen The takeover ...

Matthew Sparks receives funding from a PhD studentship through an EPSRC UKRI Doctoral Training Partnership between Swansea University and Rentokil Initial under the name 'Characterisation and ...

This video exposes the astonishing ants that willingly explode to defend their colony. It reveals how their bodies are packed with toxic fluid that bursts on impact when enemies attack. Scientists ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. The scientist E.O. Wilson once wrote that ants are the most warlike of all ...

Move over, Game of Thrones—ants can turn armies against their leaders and use subterfuge to take over entire kingdoms, too. This chilling discovery did not originate with a professional scientist, but ...

Queens of some ant species have evolved an unusually hostile mode for colony takeover: they infiltrate colonies of other ant species and manipulate the worker ants into killing their own queen — their ...

The black parasitic ant tricks the workers into attacking their amber queen. Current Biology / Takasuka et al. Ants are no strangers to violence. Sometimes, an outsider queen will attack a colony’s ...