By Shanna Hanbury Ant queens practice a grim but effective form of childcare, eating their own sick larvae to recycle them ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s good to be the queen—the ant queen, that is—because mating does wonders for her immune system. When exposure ...

A file photo of a queen ant and her young hatching. Black garden ant queens cannibalize their offspring if they are infected with disease. A file photo of a queen ant and her young hatching.

CHILD #1:How would an ant be born? ADAM:How would an ant be born? Well inside a colony there's a queen, she's a really big ant and she lays all the eggs that produce all of the ants in the colony.

Its first feature film, released four years later, was “Antz,” a brash, adult-oriented CGI production about a worker ant struggling to stick out in the communal colony he slaves away in.

If you are experiencing an uncontrollable surge of the insect in your home. Rest assured, you are not alone. "This is ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

We updated this guide with advice on minimizing the mess cleaning up spills when using our top pick for ant control. September 2024 We don’t want ants in our homes, either. But if you try to ...

Blockchain: Fintech power Ant Financial has developed a proprietary blockchain that is used, among other things, to keep tabs on the products sold on a marketplace run by Alibaba, a part owner of Ant.

Parasitic ants parasitize other ants using aggression ... The slaves tend brood, gather food, feed their enslavers, care for the queen, and defend the nest against threats. If the colony moves ...

Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. Ants started farming 66 million years ago in the aftermath of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, a new study suggests. Colonies of ants began ...

The tough love of the surviving queens doesn’t stop at cannibalism. Researchers also observed queen ants spraying the infected larvae with acidic venom before feasting, which may help kill ...