How do some ants end up atop the colony’s social hierarchy? An ant’s parents appear to play a key role in determining whether the insect will develop into a queen or a common worker, according ...

Unlike many Chimera Ants who embraced their predatory nature, Meleoron retained his human memories and developed a strong moral compass. This conscience led him to betray the Chimera Ant hierarchy ...

For young ants at the pupal stage of life -- caught between larva and adulthood -- status is all about being heard. The findings add to evidence that ants can communicate abstract information ...

A social hierarchy like this is called a “shared-dominance hierarchy.” Other ant societies establish pecking orders in which one individual is dominant and all others share a subordinate status.

Adult ants communicate with pheromones, touch and even sound. Now, researchers have discovered that developing ants, called pupae, have their own distinctive calls, which identify their social ...

A new hierarchy has been discovered among colonies of ants. It was previously assumed that all ants in a colony were of equivalent status, but new research suggests colonies contain a privileged ...

OKINAWA, Japan, April 12 (UPI) --A group of researchers in Japan recently set out to uncover the evolution of hierarchy inside ant colonies. Why and how did a queen come be crowned? How does the ...

Because all the workers in an ant colony look the same, tracking their movements and interactions by eye is fiendishly difficult. Instead, Danielle Mersch and her colleagues tagged every single ...