The second instar, or developmental phase of trap-jaw ants involves lots of weird protuberances and spiny hairs. The ants hang their larvae from the ceilings and walls of their nests using some of ...

Like common black ants, the adult spiny ants contained formic acid. In contrast, the pupa did not contain formic acid, because venom glands grow as they mature. Next, Liu and his team hope to further ...

Ant pupae—which are equivalent to the chrysalis stage of the butterfly—produce a milklike substance derived from molting fluid that is eaten by both adult ants and larvae. Typically, when insects molt ...

Within 24 hours, the larvae and adult ants in the colony had taken up the dye into their digestive tracts. Read more: Ants appear to feel more optimistic after a sugary treat.

Scientists Just Discovered That Ants Make Milk Adults and larvae consume a nutrient-rich fluid released by pupae. Will Sullivan - Daily Correspondent. December 5, 2022. Get our newsletter!

Researchers thought they knew ants intimately. Then they looked at the pupae. Worker ants tend to pupae and small larvae in a colony of clonal raider ants, Ooceraea biroi.

Eating ants is nutritious, delicious, and environmentally friendly, claim scientists. New research suggests that edible insects, such as ants, are delicious alternatives to animal proteins which ...

The discovery that adult ants harvest nutritious fluid from pupae and give larvae this fluid reveals social feeding that aids colony success. Moulting fluid from ant pupae is a food source that ...

Eating ants is nutritious, delicious, and environmentally friendly, claim scientists. New research suggests that edible insects, such as ants, are delicious alternatives to animal proteins which ...