Eusocial animals express complex behaviors, like group decision-making. Evolutionary biologists have asked how and why eusociality has evolved, and what we can learn from eusocial organisms.

The evolution of social behavior at its most intimate and complex degree is found in eusocial animals. Eusocial species live in colonies. Only a relatively small fraction of the animals in the ...

One TikTok user recently shared that her croissant lamp from Temu had been attracting ants. When she opened it up, the lamp appeared to be a real pastry. Here's why that's not as unusual as it sounds, ...

Downtown Niwot will be abuzz with excitement this weekend as it hosts the fourth annual Niwot Honey Bee Harvest Festival, celebrating everyone's favorite eusocial flying insect—the honey bee. The ...

Life is starting to look a lot less like an outcome of chemistry and physics, and more like a computational process ...

But the champions of the social scene are definitely the insects. Ants, bees, termites and wasps are what’s called "eusocial" animals – they’re so completely reliant on one another that they ...

They are possibly the only example of eusocial behaviour in mammals - the colony is arranged so that only one female produces young, just like in a bee or ant colony. Naked mole rats also have some ...

Margaret Cirino (she/her) is an assistant producer on the Life Kit team. She was formerly a production assistant at Short Wave, NPR's science podcast, involving pitching, producing and forcing her ...

2022.101175 Fiocca, K., R. Congdon, & S. O'Donnell. 2022. Body size correlations with female aggression and physiology suggest pre-adult effects on caste in an independent-founding eusocial paper wasp ...

A Swiss artist whose name has become synonymous with the very concept of bionic horrors — Hans Ruedi Giger — forever altered the landscape of science fiction with the creation of the xenomorph.