Interview with Rachelle M.M. Adams
Rachelle M.M. Adams is an assistant professor at the Ohio State University in Columbus. She works on fungus growing ant symbioses, ant evolution, and behavioral...
Myrmecological News Blog
Central European IUSSI Meeting from March 19 to 22, 2019 in Austria
European social insect conference comes to Austria: IST Austria hosts the next Central European IUSSI Meeting from March 19 – 22, 2019. The 2019 Conference...
Solenopsis invicta virus 1 decreases the foraging activity and influences the diet of its host
In the article “Viral infections in fire ants lead to reduced foraging activity and dietary changes” recenty published in Scientific Reports, Hung-Wei Hsu, Ming-Chung Chiu,...
The making of the Protalaridris revision
In the recently published paper “Ants of the genus Protalaridris (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), more than just deadly mandibles” in European Journal of Entomology, the authors John...
Interview with Bonnie Blaimer
Bonnie Blaimer is an assistant professor at North Carolina State University and director of the NCSU Insect Museum after receiving her academic education in...
Children in Denmark find new species of potentially invasive ant
Students who participated in a citizen science research project in Denmark detected Tetramorium immigrans, a new ant species in Denmark, which is potentially invasive. In...
Doing an ant PostDoc: Cléo Bertelsmeier
Cléo Bertelsmeier is 31 years old and from Germany; she has studied biology at the University of Oxford (UK), and she did her PhD...
All Nurture, no Nature: Division of labor at r = 1
In the recently published paper “Stress and early experience underlie dominance status and division of labour in a clonal insect”, Abel Bernadou, Lukas Schrader, Julia...
IUSSI Meeting 2018 in Guarujá, Brazil
Every four years, entomologists from all over the world come together to talk about their favourite topic: social insects. In August 2018, the international meeting...
Muurahaiset. That’s ants in Finnish.
How is the ant society organized? How do ants communicate? Will these ants fight if I bring them together? Who will win? How come there...
Social regulation of insulin signaling in ants
In the paper “Social regulation of insulin signaling and the evolution of eusociality in ants” recently published in Science, Vikram Chandra, Ingrid Fetter-Pruneda, Peter R....
