For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide.

Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into killing their mother.

Scientists discovered a parasitic ant queen that hacks colony odors to trigger queen murder, exposing a rare form of chemical manipulation.

This pattern deviated from previously known forms of parasitism in ant colonies, which typically had the invading queen ...

Some ants kill the queens of another species and take over their colonies, but we now know at least one species gets workers ...