The molting fluid of ant pupae functions as “metabolic currency” in the ant colony and may have enabled the evolution of eusociality. Viviane was a Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge, ...

The life cycle of a flying ant has four stages: egg, larvae, pupae, and adult. Ant eggs will either continue to grow and mature into their next stage of life or be eaten by fellow nestmates as a ...

They are holometabolous insects, meaning that they go through a metamorphosis of egg, larva, pupa and adult during their development. The eggs are laid in the host nest, where the larvae develop as ...