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...
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Meet new Subject Editors of Myrmecological News!
Recently, several eminent ant researchers agreed to becoming Subject Editors for Myrmecological News. Welcome on board! We asked them a few questions on their ant...
The wonderful wisdom of ants
Philip Bunting 2020, Scholastic Australia, 32 pages, ISBN 9781743834084Published in Dutch by Uitgeverij Condor as ‘De wereldse wijsheid van de mier’Published in English by Scholastic...
Queen morph and reproductive strategies in Arizonian ants
In the recent paper “Queen and worker phenotypic traits are associated with colony composition and environment in Temnothorax rugatulus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), an ant with alternative...
Best Paper Award 2020
In 2021, Myrmecological News awards for the third time the Best Paper of the previous year. From 7 January to 21 January, the editorial board...
Ants use tools for foraging in response to foraging risks
In the recent article “Ants adjust their tool use strategy in response to foraging risk” published in Functional Ecology, Aiming Zhou, Yuzhe Du, and Jian...
Personality in ant colonies
In the recent paper “Personality of ant colonies (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) – underlying mechanisms and ecological consequences” published in Myrmecological News, Eva S. Horna-Lowell, Kevin Neumann,...
A cross-species test of the function of ant pilosity and sculpturing
In the recent article “A cross-species test of the function of cuticular traits in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” published in Myrmecological News, Buxton et al. used...
Trophallaxis – exchanging social fluids
In the review article “Trophallaxis: the functions and evolution of social fluid exchange in ant colonies (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” published in Myrmecological News, Marie-Pierre Meurville and...
Desert ant heat survival guide
Natalia de Souza Araujo is a postdoc at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where she uses bioinformatics and molecular biology to answer exciting evolutionary questions....
Top 10 Blog Posts 2020
Myrmecological News Blog and its editorial team celebrate the end of this very difficult year 2020 with a Top 10 Blog Posts Special and use...
