Best Paper Award 2025
In 2026, Myrmecological News awards for the 8th time the Best Paper of the previous year. One paper of all contributions published in 2025 is...
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Growing Up with Ants
Marlene Anether has been fascinated with insects, and especially ants, ever since kindergarten. Now, after years of interacting with many species, she shares her extensive...
Happy New Year 2026
Dear Readers, The year 2025 was very intense and productive for our blog. We published 31 posts with authors from many countries and many female...
Doing an ant PhD: Nils Schumacher’s challenging canopy ant research
Nils Schumacher is a PhD student at the University of South Bohemia in Budweis, Czech Republic. Under supervision of the New Guinea ant expert Petr Klimes,...
The army ant and the nightjar: it is not a joke!
The study, “the nightjar and the ant: Intercontinental migration reveals a cryptic interaction”, by Carlos Camacho and colleagues, uncovers a remarkable and little-known interaction between...
Trap-jawed takeover: Unravelling the secret lives of Taiwan’s invading ants
Armed with lightning-fast jaws and complex societies, Odontomachus troglodytes has made its surprising home in southern Taiwan – far from its native Africa. In their...
An investigation of physiological adaptations for remarkable heat tolerance in a genus of desert-inhabiting African ants
In their study in Myrmecological News, “Some like it hot: Physiological responses of hot-rod ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and their interactions with past and future climate...
How does urban life shape ant morphology?
In addition to shaping human landscape, urbanization is also shaping city dwelling animal species. In the new study “Urbanisation homogenises the functional trait space and...
One Book, Two Experts: What Do They Think of “The amazing ants of the wet tropics field guide”?
A children’s book can be all of these things: an adventure, a lesson, an inspiration. But what do two experts think? To find out more,...
Ants and their microbial partners: A new systematic review to start mapping a hidden world
Ants have thrived with intricate symbioses with bacteria for over 50 million years. Yet despite growing interest and technological advances, many aspects of these relationships...
Lizard feces uncover benefits of Batesian mimicry in Camponotus lateralis
Batesian mimicry is when a harmless species adopts the warning signal of another, more harmful species. For instance, countless other arthropods evolved to mimic ants...
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