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Bees 'shriek' when attacked by giant cousins of 'murder hornets'
Asian honey bees rally against giant hornet invasions with an acoustic response that resembles the alarm shrieks of birds, primates and other social mammals.
Watch thousands of fire ants form living 'conveyor belts' to escape floods (Video)
Video and computer modeling shows how fire ants create bridge extensions from their enormous rafts, made of tightly packed ants numbering in the tens of thousands.
These worker ants drag their queens to far-off bachelor pads to mate
This is the first time that third-party matchmaking has been observed in non-humans.
Dragon mantis females have a Y-shaped sex gland that moves like a tentacle and looks like a maggot
A two-pronged, pheromone-producing gland in female dragon mantises only pops up when they are ready to mate.
To become queen, these ants shrink their brains and balloon their ovaries (then, they reverse it)
The researchers say that brain plasticity like this may not just be a trick of the ants. Other animals could do it too, and we may only just be noticing.
Scientists set up mantis 'gladiator matches' to see why some males keep their heads after sex
Male springbok mantises that attack females can sometimes escape cannibalism.
Scythelike jaws of Cretaceous 'hell ant' clutch a baby cockroach in an amber tomb
The death strike of a Cretaceous "hell ant" from 99 million years ago is preserved in amber, revealing how these demonic-looking ants hunted.
Strange, spiral bee combs look like fantastical crystal palaces. Now we know why.
The stingless Tetragonula bees build nests in strange, spiral shapes. New research offers a reason why.
