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 ...

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered sophisticated behavioral strategies that enable parasitic crickets ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant ...

However, its true scientific information was unavailable until now and it was erroneously mistaken for a different cricket species known as Acheta Domesticus,” noted Icipe scientist Tanga Mbi ...

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered sophisticated behavioral strategies that enable parasitic crickets to survive within ant ...

Several species have fascinated observers with their abilities to skip side-to-side and leap into the air from the surface of ...

Their findings, published in Communications Biology, reveal remarkable adaptations that allow these cricket species to thrive in a hostile environment. Animals that live in ant colonies ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant colonies, despite the potentially lethal defences that ants have ...