Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered sophisticated behavioral strategies that enable parasitic crickets to survive within ant colonies. Led by Ryoya Tanaka, the team documented ...

Interloper animals that live in ant colonies are known as ant guests. These include some species of crickets, butterflies, and silverfish. Ant guests will exploit the food resources in the ant colony, ...

Researchers have identified the behavioral strategies that parasitic cricket species employ to infiltrate and inhabit host ant colonies. Their research demonstrates that these crickets use 'distancing ...

A unique species of cricket found only in northern Europe tricks ants into letting them into their nests to live among them, where they then feed on ant eggs and steal food. Myrmecophilus acervorum, ...

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Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered sophisticated behavioral strategies that enable parasitic crickets to survive within ant colonies. Led by Ryoya Tanaka, the team documented ...

The cricket species can reproduce without a mate and is believed to produce only females, researchers said. Photo by Aleksandrs Balodis A unique species of cricket found only in northern Europe tricks ...