"Once the egg hatches, the ant has only a few weeks of life before it succumbs to the manipulations of its attacker, ...

The molting fluid of ant pupae functions as “metabolic currency” in the ant colony and may have enabled the evolution of eusociality. Viviane was a Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge, ...

This is a recording of ant pupa sound. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of ...

A group of workers quickly collect developing ant pupae and move them to safety. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 1, 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper ...

Besides initiating their nests much like the temporary social parasites, the slave-makers also raid other ant colonies to steal the brood (Figure 3). The pilfered larvae and pupae that are not ...

Velvet ants have a parasitoid lifestyle, laying their eggs on the defenceless pupae of other insects such as solitary ground-nesting wasps, although there is a diversity of hosts across the whole ...