When an insect steps on one of the trap’s many holes, hundreds of ants inside use the openings to seize it with their jaws. Another species, the yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes), is ...

It’s good to be the queen—the ant queen, that is—because mating does ... and the mated queens—females that have mated with a male drone and stashed the proceeds in a “sperm pocket ...

She needs to meet and mate with a male from a different colony and find a new ... Ants, along with bees and wasps, belong to the insect group called Hymenoptera. They are recognised by their three ...

a species of velvet ant known as Traumatomutilla bifurca. With its furry exterior and distinct black and white markings, the insect “looks like magic,” Vinicius Lopez, an entomologist at the ...