The matchmaking service is a tactic to avoid inbreeding. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Worker ants are known to take on many ...

Enjoy!All ant keepers know that pet ant colonies kept indoors, typically don’t launch these annual mating nuptial flights, like their wild counterparts do, because indoors, the ants lack the ...

An ant’s normal mode of locomotion is crawling. However, at certain times of the year, something remarkable happens. At certain times, some ants in the colony develop wings, leave the nest, and fly.

The royal matchmaking service may help these insects avoid inbreeding. By Richard Sima We humans have Tinder, Hinge, eHarmony and Grindr. For other animals, there’s a real dearth of matchmaking ...

Ant queens stay close to home in their hunt for a mate and as a result produce thousands of inbred offspring, a study led by a University of Exeter biologist has found. The research, published this ...