Doing an ant PhD: Sanja M. Hakala
Sanja Maria Hakala is a 31-year old evolutionary biologist from Finland. She has done all her studies at the University of Helsinki, and in...
Monthly Archive: May 2018
Colobopsis explodens, a new “exploding ant”
The “exploding ants” of Southeast Asia are currently being investigated in the multidisciplinary WWTF project “Voluntary self-sacrifice in exploding ants: A mechanism to defend co-evolved...
Does ant research need taxonomy?
Do we need taxonomy? An old question, but I encounter it quite regularly, for example, when discussing with students in university courses. We used the...
Nest architecture in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta
Interview with Walter Reinhart Tschinkel Walter Reinhart Tschinkel was born on 15 September 1940 in what is today the Czech Republic. He and his family...
Interview with Nicholas J. Gotelli
Nicholas James Gotelli is a community ecologist focusing on the organization of animal and plant communities. His diverse research interests comprise, for example, biogeography, demography...
Relatedness of cooperatively breeding queens in the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior
In their paper “Reconstructing the relatedness of cooperatively breeding queens in the Panamanian leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” published in Myrmecological News in May...
Strobing in Australian strobe ants Opisthopsis haddoni
The strobe ants of Australia (Opisthopsis spp.) move with a rapid staccato gait, appearing as if they were under a strobe light. A Photoblog contribution...
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