Find out where the ants are getting into the house by following their trails or looking for gaps to the exterior, then caulk those holes or plug them up with petroleum jelly. Then try laying down ant ...

Most of us think of ants as pests, converging on kitchen counters and ruining picnics. In fact, these busy insects can be ...

CSD loci have been mapped in honeybees and two ant species, but we know little about their evolutionary ... including separate pooled tissue from several different life stages (eggs, young larvae, ...

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 ...

The black garden queen ant (Lasius niger) ensures colony survival by laying thousands of eggs after a single mating. Her diet, including honeydew, insects, and sometimes her own infected larvae ...

Ant queens practice a grim but effective form of childcare, eating their own sick larvae to recycle them into new, healthier eggs. A new study shows that by consuming their infected offspring ...

Ant queens in colonies of black garden ants ... so being able to eat and recycle infected larvae back into brood production means valuable resources are not wasted," study co-author Flynn Bizzell ...

There is a reason wasps are the inspiration for so many sci-fi books and films – many species lay their eggs on, or in, the bodies of other arthropods so their larvae have a nutritious ... The female ...

the researchers took the larvae away from the queens and exposed some of them to spores of the lethal Metarhizium fungus, which infects wild ant nests. After those larvae had time to develop ...

Here, a yellow meadow ant (Lasius flavus, found in Europe and Asia) carries a larva that’s in the second stage of development. Next the larva will become a pupa. Collaborators send Niga ...

First, ants bring woodpecker poop teeming with tapeworm eggs to the colony and feed them to ant larva. Then, these infected ant larva mature into adult ants. The tapeworm eggs inside these ...