A WARNING has been issued over “drunk” seagulls causing chaos in UK seaside towns. The birds might be behaving strangely due ...

Every summer, millions of flying ants take to the skies to mate in the air and establish new colonies. It has been dubbed ...

The existence of ant colonies was a mystery even to the famous naturalist Charles Darwin. How could evolution produce workers ...

He also dissected reproducing M. smithii queens from Brazil and found that their sperm storage organs were empty.. Taken together with the previous studies of the ants, Rabeling and his colleagues ...

But this deviation can't account for clonal raider ant reproduction, which is "unselfish" because no gene has an advantage; ...

The yellow crazy ant, according to a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, lives up to its name. The acid-spraying insect has a bizarre form of reproduction unseen until now in the ...

A new study in ants identifies a peptide that plays an important role in regulating reproduction. This research illuminates a potential trajectory for the evolution of distinct social castes ...

SCOTS have been warned to take steps to protect their home as the country enters “flying ant day”. The summer season is here ...

Not so for this type of ant, native to India. Their worker ants have the ability to mate and reproduce. So when the Indian jumping ant queen dies, "it actually triggers a dominance tournament.

A new study in ants identifies a peptide that plays an important role in regulating reproduction. This research illuminates a potential trajectory for the evolution of distinct social castes ...

Genetic experiments showed that ants in the nests the workers chose were less genetically related. As it is for all sexually reproducing organisms, choosing the right mating partner is an ...