Ant larvae fight the offspring of parasitic queens

Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 09:20 in Biology & Nature

In certain ant species, queens invade the colonies of other species, kill the host queen or queens and lay their eggs in the host nest. After this, the host workers tend to the offspring of the parasitic queen as if their own, just as a bird hatching an egg laid by a cuckoo.

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