This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived ...

Flying ants are known as alates. In the UK ... The queen lays the eggs while female workers look after the queen, eggs and larvae. They also gather food, enlarge the nest and otherwise ensure the ...

Crickets. Flying ants. Bee larvae. Bugs are swarming onto menus in D.C. and beyond. Why it matters: Eating insects isn't new. Ancient Romans feasted on beetle larvae, the Aztecs on water fly eggs.

Fly maggots that hatch will then slowly decapitate the ant. | Credit: Sanford Porter Within days after hatching, the phorid larva migrates from the thorax into the ant's head; little is known ...