But some worker ants appear to have a workaround for that. When exposed to a pathogen, black garden ants (Lasius niger) tinkered with their nest layout in ways that could slow the spread of ...

Ant queens in colonies of black garden ants (Lasius niger) do exactly this, devouring their sick young to recycle their energy into laying new eggs, according to a new paper in the journal Current ...

Nathalie Stroeymeyt at the University of Bristol in the UK and her colleagues demonstrated this by putting groups of 180 black garden ants (Lasius niger), along with larvae and pupae, in ...

When a huge asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out the dinosaurs and drastically changed the planet. While the ...

Many species of animal eat their own young in certain circumstances. However, scientists report that queen black garden ants (Lasius niger) eat offspring in a seemingly unappetizing state ...

To test this, the researchers presented founding queens of the black garden ant (Lasius niger) with larvae that had been infected with a fungal pathogen Metarhizium for 24 hours. At this point ...

and uncovers the origins of their close partnership A worker of the fungus-farming ant species Mycetophylax asper, collected in Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 2014, on its fungus garden Riley Black ...

observed in the black garden ants (Lasius niger), one of the world’s most common, helps protect both the queen and the wider colony from collapse. In cases where the infection was left to spread ...

With over 12,000 species of ants worldwide, black and red ants have distinct traits. Black ants typically live outdoors but may enter homes for food or shelter. Red ants, especially fire ants ...

To test this theory, scientists exposed founding queens of black garden ants (Lasius niger) to larvae infected with a fungal pathogen, Metarhizium, for 24 hours. At this stage, the infection was fatal ...

How should I get rid of ants? Usually you don't need to bother. Where their activity has loosened plants, firm the plants back into the soil and water well. Good watering tends to discourage ants, as ...

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