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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Scientists have identified a 'princess pheromone' that tells an ant colony when a larva is preparing to become a queen. For Indian jumping ants (Harpegnathos saltator), becoming royalty is all ...

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 ...

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.

Within 24 hours, the larvae and adult ants in the colony had taken up the dye into their digestive tracts. Read more: Ants appear to feel more optimistic after a sugary treat.