A journey through ant brains and human genders
Taylor Hart is a PhD student in the Kronauer lab at Rockefeller University. Using transgene insertions, she was able to create clonal raider workers (Ooceraea...
Myrmecological News Blog
The mystery of mysteries as seen through the morphology of the mound-building red wood ants
In honor of his lifetime work, a commentary by Jonna Kulmuni on Bernhard Seifert’s article “A taxonomic revision of the Palearctic members of the Formica...
Biogeography of Iberian ants
In the recent paper, “Biogeography of Iberian Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” published in Diversity as part of a special issue “Diversity, Biogeography and Community Ecology of...
Organization of the behavioral repertoire in the trap-jaw ant Odontomachus chelifer
In the recent paper “Worker-behavior and behavior-behavior interaction networks in the trap-jaw ant Odontomachus chelifer (LATREILLE, 1802) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” published in Myrmecological News, the authors...
Open wide! What mandibles can teach us about ant evolution
In the recent study “The head anatomy of Protanilla lini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae), with a hypothesis of their mandibular movement” published in Myrmecological News, Richter...
On the internet, searching for ants leads to new paths to engage with science
In the recent paper “No matter where you are, Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) get attention when it is warm” published in Myrmecological News, Queiroz et al....
Chemistry in biotic interactions: The many facets of cuticular hydrocarbons
Many insects coat their body surfaces with cuticular hydrocarbons (alkanes, alkenes, etc. with various chain lengths), which act as desiccation resistance and communication tool. Florian...
Distribution of epigeic and hypogeic ants in the Brazilian Amazon
In the recent paper “Distribution of epigeic and hypogeic ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in ombrophilous forests in the Brazilian Amazon” published in Sociobiology, the authors Marcos...
Amoimyrmex, a new leaf‐cutting ant genus
In the recent paper “Amoimyrmex Cristiano, Cardoso & Sandoval, gen. nov. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a new genus of leaf‐cutting ants revealed by multilocus molecular phylogenetic and...
In honor of Walter W. Kempf on the centenary of his birth in 1920
The year 2020 marked the centenary of the birth of the German-Brazilian myrmecologist, Dr. Frei Walter Wolfgang Franz Kempf, O.F.M., (1920-1976), whose remarkable research contributed...
Interview with Karine S. Carvalho
Karine S Carvalho is a biologist and professor at the State University of Southwest Bahia, Brazil. Her main focus is on the conservation of biodiversity...
