Ants are known as hard workers, tirelessly attending to their assigned tasks—foraging for food, nurturing larvae, digging tunnels, tidying the nest. But in truth, some are total layabouts. Called ...

Two new studies show how climate influences behavior, communication, and genome evolution – driving adaptation in a long-running conflict The battle between ant hosts and their social parasites is ...

Ant behaviour and brain gene expression of defending hosts depend on the ecological success of the intruding social parasite Ant behaviour and brain gene expression of defending hosts depend on the ...

In a forest floor coup that sounds almost fictional, a newly described parasitic ant has evolved a way to make loyal workers turn on their own mother and clear the throne for an invader. The discovery ...

The findings offer a new way to understand how some ants become total layabouts. Ants are known as hard workers, tirelessly attending to their assigned tasks -- foraging for food, nurturing larvae, ...

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