breviceps are social insects that parasitize colonies of other social insects. These parasites are found throughout the social Hymenoptera (i.e., bees, wasps and ants), and have been most ...

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A study conducted by researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP), in Brazil, and collaborators shows that lemon ...

Even over breakfast here in the rain forest of Queensland, Australia, he's pondering what sort of organism an ant colony amounts to, since it is this social group as a whole, not the individual ...

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Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

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Alex Mintzer has been counting ant colonies at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument for more than 30 years. It’s a feverish midsummer night in southwestern Arizona, and the air feels electric because ...

He said that makes the Logan River infestations — between the suburbs of Cedar Grove and Allenview — so dangerous, with heavy rain opening the door for "whole mature colonies" of fire ants to ...