The molting fluid of ant pupae functions as “metabolic currency” in the ant colony and may have enabled the evolution of eusociality. Viviane was a Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge, ...

According to the team, the relationship between the blow fly larvae and termites appears to be some form of social parasitism ...

A NEW type of fly maggot has evolved fake faces on their rear-ends as a clever tactic to infiltrate the nests of their prey, ...

She is the mother of all the ants. That means she lays the eggs, that hatch into the larvae which in turn, become the adult ants. ADAM:'The ants in a colony are not all the same. There are ...

Escamoles, sometimes called ant egg caviar, are a delicacy in Mexico. These ant larvae can cost over $50 per pound. And when they're exported prices can double. But finding escamoles isn't easy.

With the growing popularity of games such as Factorio and Satisfactory, it is no surprise that indie developers are putting ...

Ants are known to kill intruders when they are detected to protect the colony. To avoid attacks, ant crickets use various behaviors that scientists are still figuring out. In this new study, the team ...

What Is a Flying Ant? Flying ants, also known as alates, are swarming adult hive members of various ant species. Ants have complex societies that require each subgroup of ants to perform different ...

Tanaka and colleagues studied this behavior in Myrmecophilus tetramorii, a "brood parasite" that sustains itself within host colonies by consuming dead insects and ant larvae. The researchers ...