Ants of Arizona: A Glimpse
Arizona wasn’t always a prime target on my travel list. However, that all changed last year when I heard about the “Ants of the Southwest”...
Myrmecological News Blog
Interview with Sylvia Cremer
Sylvia Cremer is professor and the leader of the Social Immunity group at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) in Klosterneuburg, Austria. Here, we...
Doing an ant PostDoc: Gabriela Camacho
Gabriela Camacho is an ant systematist working as a post-doctoral researcher at North Carolina State University in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences. Originally,...
Obstacle size affects clearing foraging trails in leaf-cutting ants
In the recently published article “When and how obstacle size and the number of foragers affect clearing a foraging trail in leaf-cutting ants” in Insectes...
Social parasitism: tricky questions
The various shades of social parasitism in ants have been considered to be among the most intriguing life histories out there. And since long, the...
Ponera ants from Taiwan and Japan
In the recent paper “Taxonomic revision of the genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Taiwan and Japan, with a key to East Asian species”...
Corpse management of the invasive Argentine ant
In the recent article “Corpse management of the invasive Argentine ant inhibits growth of pathogenic fungi” by Jenni Kesäniemi, Janne J. Koskimäki, and Jaana Jurvansuu...
Doing an ant PhD: Claudio Rabelo dos Santos Neto
Claudio Rabelo dos Santos-Neto is 34 years old and a biologist from Brazil. He did his master’s degree at the National Institute of Amazonian Research...
Lina Pedraza
My name is Lina Pedraza. I am a PhD student at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Zoology at the University of Regensburg, Germany. I...
A photographic journey to the ants of the Ecuadorian Chocó
Ecuador is one of the places with the highest biodiversity on Earth. Despite the country’s relatively small size, it encompasses a variety of diverse regions....
Dietary specialisation in the mushroom harvesting ant Euprenolepis procera
Sofia Lizon à l’Allemand and Christoph von Beeren recently published their interesting new paper „Competition as possible driver of dietary specialisation in the mushroom harvesting...
