The tiny crickets collect and wear the chemical markers of the ants, reducing ant aggression and disguising them as a member ...

Panda ants have unique markings, but they are actually not related to panda bears or ants: they are a type of wasp!

The presence of wings indicates an ant’s fertility—ants with wings are either queens or the drones whose job it is to mate with them. Enthusiastically social insects, ants typically live in ...

When the winged males (drones) and virgin queens (princesses) emerge from the nest, they scatter to maximise the chance of mating between different colonies and reduce inbreeding. An ant colony can ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s good to be the queen—the ant queen, that is—because mating does wonders for her immune system. When exposure ...

the crickets reduce ant aggression and are accepted by the ants as a nest-mate, according to the study. Ant crickets are among the smallest cricket species in the world and have evolved to be ...