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

While ant queen violence is well-known, scientists recently documented the first evidence of parasite-induced matricide ...

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

In a forest floor coup that sounds almost fictional, a newly described parasitic ant has evolved a way to make loyal workers turn on their own mother and clear the throne for an invader. The discovery ...

Researchers observed nests created by ants of the Lasius genus and found out how their members attack their own mothers due ...