In this new study, the team looked at a cricket ant species Myrmecophilus tetramorii. This brood parasite survives in an ant colony by eating dead insects and ant larvae. The team found that most ...

Tanaka and colleagues studied this behavior in Myrmecophilus tetramorii, a brood parasite that sustains ... They noticed that when the cricket initiated dodging behavior, it stayed farther from ...

Researchers have identified the behavioral strategies that parasitic cricket species employ to ... in Myrmecophilus tetramorii, a "brood parasite" that sustains itself within host colonies by ...