"Once the egg hatches, the ant has only a few weeks of life before it succumbs to the manipulations of its attacker, ...

The fossil’s discovery in Brazil shows that ants have been around for longer than once thought. This insect impaled its prey ...

Imagine a world within the soil, where tiny warriors wage silent wars, and the victors steal away the future of their enemies ...

Bees feed on flowers; wasps hunt other insects; ants "feed on a whole variety of things," from flowers to dead animals, says University of Georgia entomologist Ken Ross. Morphology also differs: ...

Researchers say the fossil adult worker ant—a newly discovered species notably smaller than its modern relatives, named Basiceros enana—now offers direct evidence that the cryptic ant group ...

More information: Louis Bell-Roberts et al, Larger colony sizes favoured the evolution of more worker castes in ants, Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02512-7 Provided by ...