Hugo Deans’ discovery, coupled with his father’s expertise as an entomology professor at Penn State, led to revelations about how wasps manipulate ants into protecting their larvae.

Some families of caterpillars (larvae of butterflies and moths) have developed a specific kind of interaction with ants. One of these families (Riodinidae) includes two species that interact ...

Escamoles, sometimes called ant egg caviar, are a delicacy in Mexico. These ant larvae can cost over $50 per pound. And when they're exported prices can double. But finding escamoles isn't easy.

She is the mother of all the ants. That means she lays the eggs, that hatch into the larvae which in turn, become the adult ants. ADAM:'The ants in a colony are not all the same. There are ...

The presence of a few red imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta Buren, workers on aphid bearing cotton plants reduced aphid predator effectiveness in the laboratory. The predators Hippodamia ...