Queen ants, the only individuals in a colony that can lay eggs ... This, he says, contradicted a known tradeoff among animals between longevity and increased reproduction. Desplan and his colleagues ...

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 ...

Queen ants are significantly larger than worker ... Their bodies are robust and specialised for reproduction, with a larger thorax and abdomen, housing the reproductive organs.

The men, including two Belgian teenagers, pleaded guilty to smuggling thousands of live queen ants, which the Kenyan ...

Indian jumping ants (Harpegnathos saltator) are unusual in that worker ants can, in the absence of a queen, make a switch to a queen-like status in order to reproduce and keep the colony going. In a ...

Once a niche pastime for hobbyists, ant-keeping has morphed into a thriving underground industry in Europe and Asia, where ...

with at least one queen; Worker ants are wingless, sterile females; Male ants (a.k.a. drones) exist for one purpose — reproduction; Ants communicate with each other through scent (pheromone ...

The KWS said authorities had intercepted live queen ants, including from the sought-after Messor Cephalotes species also known as the Giant African Harvester Ant, concealed in modified test tubes ...