A new study published in Current Biology documented the queen of an ant species dethroning the queen of another species using ...

Newly mated parasitic queen ants invade colonies and spray their victims with a chemical irritant that provokes the workers to kill their mother.

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide.

Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into killing their mother.

Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on their own mother.

A sneaky spray of chemicals makes ant workers turn on their own mother — the queen — so a parasitic invader can take over the ...

THIS is the remarkable moment a cunning ant manages to invade a nest and trick workers into killing the queen – only to take ...

This pattern deviated from previously known forms of parasitism in ant colonies, which typically had the invading queen ...

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