Young, infected Lasius neglectus ants will send out an altruistic "kill me" signal to worker ants, a new study finds, as part ...

A mother's love isn't necessarily universal across the animal kingdom, with some mothers even resorting to eating children who aren't quite up to scratch. Ant queens in colonies of black garden ants ...

Ant queens practice a grim but effective form of childcare, eating their own sick larvae to recycle them into new, healthier eggs. A new study shows that by consuming their infected offspring, the ...