A rare Japanese ant is the only species known to lack female workers and males; all of its young develop into parasitic queens that try to take over other colonies.

A rare ant species endemic to Japan has been found to be the only kind that lacks both workers and males, consisting ...

A study by Dr. Gianpiero Fiorentino and his colleagues, published in the Journal of Paleontology, describes the identification of a new species of ant, Hypoponera electrocacica, belonging to the genus ...

For more than 40 years, researchers suspected this species might operate in such an extreme way, but they couldn’t prove it. Now, a new study confirms it. This is the first known ant species made up ...

Why Are Certain Frogs Poisonous?... Ant colonies typically consist of reproductive females, also known as queens, and non-reproductive female workers, as well as males that die shortly after mating.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ant colonies typically consist of reproductive females, also known as queens, and non-reproductive female workers, as well as ...