Rather than finding and killing each queen, Mahnken’s team developed a first-of-its-kind method of delivering gel bait mixed with an insect growth regulator — a type of ant birth control ...

Scientists found that an insulin-like gene plays a role in determining what ant becomes a queen in a colony.

But one Mediterranean ant species takes royal work to the extreme: The worker ants use their mandibles to haul their young queen to faraway nests so she can mate, according to new research.

Meet a rodeo ant. The little ant on the big one’s back is a queen of a species discovered in Austin, Texas. It has the right mouthparts and head shape to grip the waist and ride on queen ants of ...