For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide.

The Santa Barbara Channel is a hotbed of biodiversity, thanks to the many species whose ranges meet and overlap in the area.

During the original queen’s downfall, the parasitic ant will even retreat and hide as the workers kill their leader. In some ...

The sight of flames tearing across Tongariro National Park last week was heartbreaking for lovers of the landscape. It was ...

Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into killing their mother.

Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on their own mother.

L. orientalis usurps the throne by making their way into the nest and spraying the host queen with chemicals. As the dose ...

Tennessee is proving that strategic investments in nature deliver measurable gains in both human health and economic ...

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Hidden in the wet, shady woods of northwest New Jersey blooms a remarkable and rare plant – Yellow Hammond’s Spring Beauty. Found nowhere else on Earth, it’s just one example of the many plants that ...

Well-meaning city dwellers forgo permits and official procedure to rewild urban areas across the country. In downtown LA, ...