their appearance near ant nests puzzled researchers and led to the hypothesis of a previously unknown collaboration between ants and gall wasps. Through careful study, Andrew Deans and his ...

wasps and ants), and have been most intensely studied in ants. The social parasitism that I address here is restricted to the ants that form mixed species nests and depend on labor provided by the ...

An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

Bees, wasps, and ants belong to the order Hymenoptera. Bees feed on flowers; wasps hunt other insects; ants "feed on a whole variety of things," from flowers to dead animals, says University of ...

Enthusiastically social insects, ants typically live in structured nest communities that may be ... There are several wasp species that closely resemble ants, including the velvet ant, which ...

Wasps have been around for 250 million years and ants and bees all evolved from wasp ... with some of their nests growing to three metres in height. According to Serian Sumner: “Wasps invented ...

Velvet ants are solitary insects. Males have wings and search for the wingless females on the ground. Once they find each other and mate, the wasps go their separate ways. When the female is ready to ...