An ant may be responsible for the most painful sting from a bug in the world, but different ants have different lifestyles. In some species, queen ants do the weirdest thing after their dramatic ...

Queen Iberian harvester ants are capable of storing and cloning the sperm from a cousin species, spawning hybrid offspring to take on the hard work of keeping the colony intact. Reading time 3 minutes ...

Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two different ant species. A team ...

Iberian harvester ant queens have a unique superpower: They can lay eggs that hatch into an entirely different species. This discovery, described in a new paper published September 3 in the journal ...

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species. These queen Iberian harvester ants (Messor ibericus) are ...

Researchers have made an unusual observation that seems to be at odds with biology: an ant, known as the Iberian harvester ant can produce offspring of two completely different species. Many ants need ...