Ant mothers are the queens of tough love. They simply don't have time to coddle their sick young. If a newly hatched black garden ant is exposed to a pathogen, researchers in the US have found the ...

A mother's love isn't necessarily universal across the animal kingdom, with some mothers even resorting to eating children who aren't quite up to scratch. Ant queens in colonies of black garden ants ...

It grows quickly and depends on adult worker ants to feed it. These workers decide how much and what kind of food the larva ...

Ant queens practice a grim but effective form of childcare, eating their own sick larvae to recycle them into new, healthier eggs. A new study shows that by consuming their infected offspring, the ...

Life in an ant colony is a symphony of subtle interactions between insects acting in concert, more like cells in tissue than independent organisms bunking in a colony. Now, researchers have discovered ...

The research focused on Lasius neglectus, a species of garden ant. Unlike adult workers, which can leave the nest to die when ...

Ant‐eating spiders represent a fascinating model of trophic specialisation and adaptive evolution. These predators exhibit a narrow dietary spectrum (myrmecophagy), targeting specific ant taxa by ...

When most people think about hibernation, they picture bears snoozing away the cold winter in their dens. You’re right that other animals do that, too. I talked about your question with my friend ...