The royal matchmaking service may help these insects avoid inbreeding. By Richard Sima We humans have Tinder, Hinge, eHarmony and Grindr. For other animals, there’s a real dearth of matchmaking ...

Enjoy!All ant keepers know that pet ant colonies kept indoors, typically don’t launch these annual mating nuptial flights, like their wild counterparts do, because indoors, the ants lack the ...

Ant queens stay close to home in their hunt for a mate and as a result produce thousands of inbred offspring, a study led by a University of Exeter biologist has found. The research, published this ...

An ant’s normal mode of locomotion is crawling. However, at certain times of the year, something remarkable happens. At certain times, some ants in the colony develop wings, leave the nest, and fly.

Social insects, like ants and bees, thrive on the caste system – a precise division of duties among colony members. In most of these societies, environment is thought to influence whether larvae ...

Researchers have discovered the genetic basis for a quirk of the animal kingdom -- how ant queens produce broods that are entirely male or female. Researchers have discovered the genetic basis for a ...

MONTPELLIER, France — Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two ...

The same queen of the Iberian harvester ant (Messor ibericus) gave birth to both a hairy male (Messor ibericus, left) and a hairless male (Messor structor, right), even though they belong to distantly ...

(CNN) — Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two different ant species.