Happy New Year 2025
Dear Readers, The year 2024 was very intense and productive for our blog. We published 31 posts with authors from many countries and many female...
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Olena Kolumba
I am Olena, a second-year PhD student in the Department of Biology at New York University. My fascination with insects, particularly ants, began during my...
Ants and Fungi: a 66-million-year coevolutionary partnership
How did fungus-farming ants and their fungal cultivators coevolve? In a recent study, “The coevolution of fungus-ant agriculture,” published in Science, Schultz et al. answer...
How do ants forage for food? Insights from red ants and Western carpenter ants
Ants obtain many of their essential nutrients from food, including essential amino acids that they cannot produce and must acquire from their diet. However, how...
Interview with a Myrmecologist in New Zealand
Monica Gruber is the co-founder and leader of the Pacific Biosecurity programme in New Zealand. She finished her PhD in ecology at Victoria University of...
Always keep your samples in a freezer
In the study “Variable viral loads and immune response in an invasive ant’s native and introduced ranges” published in Diversity and Distributions, Felden et al.*...
Purbayan Ghosh
Hey, I am Purbayan. Ever since I was a kid, I have been fascinated by the tiny world of ants-observing their long trails, seeing them...
Elia Guariento
Hi, my name is Elia Guariento. I’m an ecologist working as a researcher at the @Institute for Alpine Environment (Link: Institute for Alpine Environment –...
Nutritional constraints in urban ant colonies: a comparative study between urban and rural 𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘳 colonies
Edited by Elia Guariento and Salvatore Brunetti A Photoblog Contribution compiled by Gema Trigos-Peral In the recent study “Urban diet as a potential cause of low body fat content...
Moving beyond Drosophila – Jumping ants as a model species in research on gene regulation.
Olfaction is essential for complex social behavior in insects. To discriminate complex social cues, ants evolved an expanded number of odorant receptors (Or) genes strategically...
Can fake galls attract real helpers?
In their recent paper “Introducing 3D-printed oak galls as artificial nests for arboreal ants, with first results on leaf damage reduction on olive trees“, Daniele...
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