Indian jumping ants, Harpegnathos saltator, can identify future queens based on a pheromone produced by the royal larvae. The measles virus attacks long-lived immune cells, reducing antibody-mediated ...

Indian jumping ants (Harpegnathos saltator) are unusual in that worker ants can, in the absence of a queen, make a switch to a queen-like status in order to reproduce and keep the colony going. In a ...