For the first time, researchers have ... otherwise inactive developmental stage — ants produce a nutrient-rich fluid that is consumed by both adults and larvae. Newly hatched larvae depend ...

Everything in the ant hill seems to ... over by both younger larvae and older adult ants. Then she had isolated each pupa into a tiny, dry test tube. And every time, they drowned.

For the first time, researchers have ... an otherwise inactive developmental stage—ants produce a nutrient-rich fluid that is consumed by both adults and larvae. Newly hatched larvae depend ...

Since juveniles never leave a colony, this is the first time scientists have been able to document these stages. Kirchner said researchers can now document every stage of this ant's life cycle ...

Ant queens practice a grim but ... By not eating their infected larvae in time, they allowed the fungus to reach a lethal stage, eventually leading to the colony’s collapse.

A nutrient-rich liquid that could be produced by all ant species while the insects are in their pupal stage is consumed by adults and larvae. The creation of this fluid hadn’t been reported ...

For Indian jumping ants (Harpegnathos saltator), becoming royalty is all about timing. If a larva gives signs of maturing into a queen at the wrong time, it is physically harassed into remaining a ...

Ant pupae – the stage between the larva and the adult – previously seemed to serve no purpose. A new observation has revealed that its 'milk' actually provides an essential liquid for the ...

Researchers have known about this phenomenon for years, but until now, no one knew just how the ants managed to pull off that feat. Buoyant larvae, it turns out, are the secret to the colony's ...