The secret lies in a protein called Imp-L2, which counteracts some of the effects of insulin in the substitute queen ant's body, according to a new study, published Thursday (Sept. 1) in the ...

But in her final larval form, the queen ant pulled off a look unlike any other. Her body had gone almost completely hairless, the team found, and had instead sprouted 37 doorknob-like lumps ...

The infected queen ant can't be seen beneath the thick fungal ... dish to see if anything strange might issue forth from its body. And indeed, something wicked that way came.

Male yellow crazy male ants have both maternal and paternal genomes in different cells of their body, making the ants ... typically with one queen ant and many worker ants. All worker ants are ...

Relative to body size, that would be like a human ... Diacamma rugosum, native to Borneo, is one of the only ant species to lack a queen caste. Instead, workers compete in long tournaments to ...

At the same time, this wax layer protects the ant body against water loss ... colony or whether an individual is a worker or a queen. As temperatures rise, the wax increasingly liquifies and ...