Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two different ant species. A team ...

Ants, though small, create significant disturbances in various environments. Twelve common species, including carpenter, pavement, and fire ants, disrupt homes and gardens. These ants cause structural ...

Oct. is 'Stop the Ant' month, and one type of ant has been particularly annoying over on Maui for many years now. The Tropical Fire Ant - more commonly known as the red ant.

This process—the team dubs it “xenoparous,” meaning that an organism gives birth to another species as part of its life cycle—is a “natural case of cross-species cloning, resulting in the maintenance ...

Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning ...

They recently discovered that Iberian harvester ant queens are able to produce offspring of a completely different species, ...

New research offers fresh insight into how different morphological types and social roles emerge in ant societies, confirming that size is coupled to caste, with genes ultimately deciding how size and ...

Ant colonies are highly structured societies where most members are sterile female workers. Queens typically mate once in ...