And then there’s Sceptobius lativentris. Parker’s research revealed that the adult beetles turn off their ability to produce ...

Ants send messages to colony members through odor compounds that contain alkenes, chemicals that help nestmates recognize one ...

Rove beetles cloak themselves in ant pheromones to sneak into the insects’ nests for protection. But in an odd catch-22, that makes them forever reliant on their hosts ...

A single queen in the tropics; large colonies in deserts; workers with uniform morphology in temperate regions; ant social structures vary according to environmental conditions. This is shown, for the ...