Half a year of CoV
For half a year, the ongoing coronavirus crisis has impacted our world now. We have reached out to gather an impression of how the crisis...
Myrmecological News Blog
Ant diversity of the Gerrouche forest massif in Algeria
In the recently pubslished article “Ants’ diversity (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Algeria’s humid forests, case of the Gerrouche forest massif (Taza National Park)” published in...
Exploring two new iron maiden ants of the Cretaceous
In the recently published article “Two new iron maiden ants from Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: †Zigrasimeciini)” in Myrmecological News, Huijia Cao, Brendon E. Boudinot, Zhen Wang,...
Doing an ant PhD: Marina Natalia Psalti
Marina Natalia Psalti is 27 years old and a PhD student at the University of Mainz. She works in the lab of Romain Libbrecht and...
Interview with Natasha Palesa Mothapo
Natasha Palesa Mothapo grew up in Johannesburg (South Africa) and her academic career started with a physiological study on an invasive slug found on the...
Doing an ant PhD: Tania De Almeida
Tania De Almeida is 27 years old and grew up in Saint-Maur-Des-Fossés (near Paris). She received a bachelor’s degree in Biology at Paris-Sorbonne University. She...
Ant brains: marvelous atoms of matter
Rebekah Keating Godfrey was a graduate student in the Wulfila Gronenberg lab at the University of Arizona. The two are interested in the neuronal control...
Doing an ant PostDoc: Anindita Brahma
Anindita Brahma was born and brought up in Calcutta (now known as Kolkata), India. She was introduced to Zoology at an early age, all thanks...
Climbing the mountain: it’s not all about physiology
In the recently published article “Coping with temperature extremes: thermal tolerance and behavioral plasticity in desert leaf-cutting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) across an altitudinal gradient” by...
Unexpected encounter – Argentine ants in Nantes, France
I was recently contacted by Myrmecological News’ blog to write a post about our paper recently published in Insectes Sociaux: “Invasive in the North: New...
Ants in remote continental islands
In the article, soon to be published, “Sampling insects at remote and threatened regions: The ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador, South America”,...
