Ant colonies are well-defended fortresses. The social insects quickly sniff out most intruders and kill them to protect their ...

A new study from Caltech explores the remarkable way a SoCal beetle infiltrates the colonies of the ant that runs the show in ...

And then there’s Sceptobius lativentris. Parker’s research revealed that the adult beetles turn off their ability to produce ...

S. lativentris beetles evade detection — and attack — by grooming the ants to harvest chemicals called cuticular hydrocarbons ...

What is myrmecophily? It represents an important interaction in nature. The word can be split into two parts: myrmex and ...

Rove beetles have evolved a neat trick to survive. They cloak themselves in ant pheromones, allowing them to enter and remain ...

As organisms diversified on planet Earth, some branches of the tree of life became exceptionally diverse, others far less so. Still others went extinct. Why evolution favored certain groups over ...

Earth's biosphere is brimming with symbiotic relationships: from bacteria that became our cells' mitochondria, to mycorrhizal fungi that help plants ...

Army ants infamously visit destruction upon thousands of unlucky insects, but new findings highlight one of the ways the insects bolster biodiversity as well. The hodgepodge collections of food waste ...

People were not the first farmers. Several groups of ants, and one of termites, were tending fungal plantations for millions of years before Homo sapiens strode the planet. But ants and termites are ...