Humans aren’t the only ones who enjoy the sweet taste of sugar. Many people head into their kitchens only to be greeted by a swarm of sugar ants taking over a sweet treat or sticky spill on the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There's almost nothing worse than spotting an ant in your kitchen only to then notice another, and ...

The black parasitic ant tricks the workers into attacking their amber queen. Current Biology / Takasuka et al. Ants are no strangers to violence. Sometimes, an outsider queen will attack a colony’s ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. The scientist E.O. Wilson once wrote that ants are the most warlike of all ...

Researchers report on a behavioral phenomenon where parasitic ants trick a host colony into killing its own queen. In this photo, the parasitic ant queen Lasius orientalis (left) infiltrates the nest ...