Kenyan authorities recently dismantled an illegal ring trafficking queen ants, arresting Belgian teenagers, a Vietnamese man, ...

The queen ants included some of the “sought-after” Messor Cephalotes species, commonly known as the Giant African Harvester ant, according to the outlet. “We did not come here to break any laws.

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s good to be the queen—the ant queen, that is—because mating does wonders for her immune system. When exposure ...

A head at the top, a thorax in the middle ... NARRATOR:'In a leafcutter colony there is a queen ant, and she is much bigger than the other ants. And her job is to lay eggs. NARRATOR:'Then there ...

CHILD #1:How would an ant be born? ADAM:How would an ant be born? Well inside a colony there's a queen, she's a really big ant and she lays all the eggs that produce all of the ants in the colony.

The “Ants and Agriculture” exhibit in the Microbial Sciences Building closed Thursday with staff and students gathering to say their goodbyes to the ant colony. Forty people watched as the Currie Lab ...

The Kenyan authorities have disrupted a major wildlife trafficking operation involving the attempted smuggling of approximately 5,000 live queen ants, including the rare Messor Cephalotes species ...