Grease ants are considerably smaller than other common ants, at only 1/32 to 1/20 inch long. Its body is yellow, bronze, light brown, shiny, and smooth. Its eyes are tiny in relation to the size ...

Q: I have a tenant in an apartment, and she has ants. The exterminator said they were "dirt" ants and he has baited the kitchen, where she sees them. However, it has been about a month and they ...

It's one of those horrifying facts of nature: Ant larvae eat each other. But why would a species that's famous for self-sacrifice and cooperation also ...

For Indian jumping ants (Harpegnathos saltator), becoming royalty is all about timing. If a larva gives signs of maturing into a queen at the wrong time, it is physically harassed into remaining a ...

So the team collected 424 larvae of formica fusca, a common host ant species, and placed them each onto a parasitic ant egg. Another 56 host larvae were put onto eggs of their own kind.

The larva of a Monomorium triviale queen ant looks like an alien doll (Image credit: Idowaga et al., doi: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5105.2.5, CC BY 4.0). Every queen needs a crown. For the queen ant ...

Here's a look at the gruesome details of how a trap-jaw ant larvae goes through its stages of development, from a hairy blobs that hang nest walls to baby ants with mandibles that snap shut on prey.

First, ants bring woodpecker poop teeming with tapeworm eggs to the colony and feed them to ant larva. Then, these infected ant larva mature into adult ants.

If the ant adults and larvae do not consume the fluid, it builds up and becomes contaminated with fungi, which kill the pupae. “We identified a mechanism that unites the colony, ...