The workers in Iberian harvester ant (Messor ibericus) colonies are all hybrids, with queens needing to mate with males ... observed a single queen producing males of both species by monitoring its ...

Bizarrely, Iberian harvester ant queens lay eggs that turn into male builder harvester ants, and some of her offspring are ...

They recently discovered that Iberian harvester ant queens are able to produce offspring of a completely different species, ...

Scientists have revealed that queen ants in southern Europe can produce male clones of a completely different species.

Scientists discover that a queen ants of the Messor genus produce males from another species to breed hybrid workers in ...

Researchers discovered that Mediterranean ants are having babies that belong to a different species. Researchers observed queens of the Mediterranean harvester ant species Messor ibericus, left, ...

Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two different ant species.

The research was published in the journal Nature earlier this month. It was carried out by a team of international scientists ...

The discovery of an unusual reproductive system for one ant species solves a long-standing puzzle about a missing population of another ant species. Each of these species clones males: the father’s ...

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species. These queen Iberian harvester ants (Messor ibericus) are ...