Ants of Hong Kong, SAR, China
The special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau are located in South-East Asia. Despite containing large cities and virtually no primary forest, both regions...
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Messing around with Atta sp. in Yucatan, Mexico
Recently there was a contribution by Andrea Marina Alma in this blog, „Obstacle size affects clearing foraging trails in leaf-cutting ants“. This photoblog made Alfred...
Trophallaxis: a charismatic quirk, simple food exchange, or an opportunity to conquer the world
Adria LeBoeuf recently started her own research group at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. She tries to understand how socially exchanged fluids evolve and...
Interview with Fabiana Cuezzo
Fabiana Cuezzo is a biologist at the National University of Tucumán, a little town located in the north of Argentina, doing ant research and teaching...
The Latitude Project – 60° North – Russia
Myrmecological News Blog has launched The Latitude Project – by using latitudes to circle the globe, we collect impressions of the ants of the world...
A short photographic trip to Northern Italy
Italy is one of the most famous destination places for tourism, mostly because of its nice coastline and many ancient cities coupled with awesome food....
Doing an ant PhD: Vanessa Martinez
Vanessa Martinez is 30 years old and was born at Tassin la demi lune (near Lyon). She lived there until she began studying at the...
Parenting in Myrmecology
Manuela Ramalho is Brazilian, and she did her PhD at the Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) in Rio Claro-SP with Odair Correa Bueno. She is currently...
The learning walks of ants
When transitioning from in-nest duties to their foraging life outside the nest, ants perform a series of highly choreographed learning walks around the nest entrance,...
Doing an ant PhD: Paloma Alvarez-Blanco
Paloma Alvarez-Blanco comes from Asturias, a mountainous area near the coast of northern Spain, where she was born 35 years ago. She is passionate about...
Nest modifications in Temnothorax crassispinus
In the recently published article “Nest modifications by the acorn ant Temnothorax crassispinus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” in Myrmecological News, Sławomir Mitrus reveals that acorn ants can...
