Some families of caterpillars (larvae of butterflies and moths) have developed a specific kind of interaction with ants. One of these families (Riodinidae) includes two species that interact ...

Escamoles, sometimes called ant egg caviar, are a delicacy in Mexico. These ant larvae can cost over $50 per pound. And when they're exported prices can double. But finding escamoles isn't easy.

The velvet ant larva then hatches and proceeds to eat the host pupa, before it itself pupates and emerges from the nest as an adult velvet ant. Their hosts can be spread some distances apart, and as ...

The two-faced larvae were discovered by chance, while researchers were looking for ants in the Anti-Atlas mountainsCredit: Getty Their booty's are adorned with two red dots, that look like beady ...

She is the mother of all the ants. That means she lays the eggs, that hatch into the larvae which in turn, become the adult ants. ADAM:'The ants in a colony are not all the same. There are ...