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, ...

The life cycle of a flying ant has four stages: egg, larvae, pupae, and adult. Ant eggs will either continue to grow and mature into their next stage of life or be eaten by fellow nestmates as a ...

An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

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But interestingly enough, there may be more nests than just the parent colony where the queen ant lays her eggs. There may ...