Stuck in a stick: How do twig-nesting ants avoid heat stress?
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...
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Interview with Christina Kwapich
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...
The fast the tortuous: Turn up the heat, and ants turn down the turns
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...
Preferential food allocation in a worker subcaste of the invasive yellow crazy ant
In the recent publication “Preferential food allocation to an essential worker subcaste in the invasive yellow crazy ant, Anoplolepis gracilipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” published in Myrmecological...
Different types of ants
Hello young readers! We hope you enjoyed our first post on understanding the ant parts. Are you ready for our next post? We are thrilled...
‘Continuusparity’ in ants
In the recent article “Late-life fitness gains and reproductive death in Cardiocondyla obscurior ants” published in Life, the authors Luisa Maria Jaimes-Nino, Jürgen Heinze, and...
The first high-resolution global map of ant biodiversity and estimates of where future sampling could yield undiscovered species
In the recent paper “The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity” published in Science Advances, Kass and collaborators* investigate the global biodiversity patterns...
One model to rule them all: Thermal-death-time model reconciles heat tolerance measurements in ants
In the recent paper “Thermal-death-time model as a tool to analyze heat tolerance, acclimation, and biogeography in ants” by Quentin Willot, Michael Ørsted, Christian Damsgaard,...
Book review: “The guests of ants: How myrmecophiles interact with their hosts”
Bert Hölldobler and Christina L. Kwapich, 2022. The Guests of Ants: How Myrmecophiles Interact with Their Hosts. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. 566 pp. EUR. 72,00...
Critical thermal limits in ants
In the recent paper “Critical thermal limits in ants and their implications under climate change” published in Biological Reviews, the authors Geraldo Nascimento, Talita Câmara,...
What ants teach us about collaboration
In the recent study “Who is working on ant physiology? There is room to improve international collaborations” by Virola-V et al.* published in Myrmecological News,...
