The rest of the time, the queen's offspring all become nonbreeding females—a fierce sisterhood of near clones that patrol ...

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When crawling around your backyard, ants typically mind their own business. In fact, because these tiny insects naturally aerate soil, they play a pretty important role in beautifying your garden. But ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Argentine ant is one of the most invasive species of ...

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For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. The scientist E.O. Wilson once wrote that ants are the most warlike of all ...