Doing an ant PhD: Justin Walsh
Justin Walsh is 27 years old, and he grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia. He got his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in biology from...
Myrmecological News Blog
Invasive Northern Red Oaks benefit Temnothorax crassispinus ant colonies
In the paper “Invasive Northern Red Oaks benefit Temnothorax crassispinus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) ant colonies” by Łukasz Myczko, Łukasz Dylewski, Sławomir Mitrus, and Tim H. Sparks...
Exploring Tibetan ants
In their paper “Cryptic species of the Myrmica tibetana complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) revealed by integrative taxonomy” published in Myrmecological News in August 2018, Bernhard Seifert,...
A model system comes of age
In the paper “Symbiotic partnerships and their chemical interactions in the leafcutter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” published 2018 in Myrmecol. News, Sarah F. Worsley, Tabitha M....
The Ant Chromosome database – ACdb: an online resource for ant chromosome researchers
Ants are diverse insects exhibiting astonishing variation in chromosome number and structure. Their haploid chromosome numbers range from n = 1 to n = 60...
Ophiocordyceps – ant infecting fungi
Ophiocordyceps is an ascomycetous genus comprising mostly entomopathogenic fungi. There are approximately 250 species described infecting hosts across 11 insect orders. Along its evolutionary history,...
Ant-plant interactions in the Anthropocene
A Book review by Aaron M. Ellison Oliveira, P.S. & Koptur, S. (Eds.) 2017: Ant-plant interactions: impacts of humans on terrestrial ecosystems. –...
Diversity and distribution of Solenopsis thief ants belowground
In the recently published paper “Diversity and distribution of Solenopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) thief ants belowground” in Myrmecol. News (2018), Leo Ohyama, Joshua R. King, and...
Interview with E.O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson, born in June 1929, is a US-American biologist, theorist, researcher, and distinguished expert on ant research. He popularized the terms “sociobiology,”...
Interview with Diana E. Wheeler
The research of Diana Esther Wheeler from the University of Arizona entomology department focuses on the physiological basis of caste differentiation in social insects. She...
Antennation and information
In their paper “No evidence for tactile communication of direction in foraging Lasius ants” published in Insectes Sociaux February 2018, Stefan Popp et al. test...
