In the recent paper “Socio- and population genetic analyses of two West-African ponerine species (Megaponera analis and Paltothyreus tarsatus) with winged and wingless queens (Hymenoptera:...
In the recent article, “Wonderfully weird: the head anatomy of the armadillo ant, Tatuidris tatusia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Agroecomyrmecinae), with evolutionary implications”, Richter et al.* investigate...
In the recent paper “Low diversity and host specificity in the gut microbiome community of Eciton army ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae) in a Costa Rican...
In the recent review “Supergenes as drivers of ant evolution” published in Myrmecological News, Michel Chapuisat focuses on the social structure of ant colonies, which...
Michel Chapuisat reviews concepts and findings on supergenes in the recent article “Supergenes as drivers of ant evolution” published in Myrmecological News. Colony social structure...
A View by *Monica A. M. Gruber, Davide Santoro, Meghan Cooling, Philip J. Lester, Benjamin D. Hoffmann, Christina Boser, Lori Lach Edited by: Gaurav Agavekar,...
Each year, Myrmecological News Blog and its editorial team celebrate the end of the year with a Top 10 Blog Posts Special. We use this...
In the recent paper “Igaponera curiosa, a new ponerine genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Amazon” published in the European Journal of Taxonomy, Adrian Troya, Frederico...
In the study “Behavioral response to heat stress of twig‑nesting canopy ants” recently published in Oecologia, Jelena Bujan and Stephen Yanoviak tested the ability of...
Christina Kwapich is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is interested in the behavior and ecology of animals, and has a...
In the recent publication, “Higher soil temperatures cause faster running and more efficient homing in the temperate xerothermophilous ant Formica cinerea (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)”, the authors...
