by Elio — We sel­dom stray from mi­cro­bial do­mains, but here is a stun­ning (and de­light­ful) rea­son for wan­der­ing fur­ther afield. Af­ter all, ex­am­ples of par­a­sitism are surely not con­fined to the Small Things and lessons can be learned wher­ever they ap­pear. Ac­cord­ing to a group of re­searchers from Eng­land and Italy, par­a­sites of some ants mimic the sounds made by the queen of a colony. The ants in ques­tion are...