Monthly Archive: April 2019

30 April 2019

The Latitude Project – 60° North – Finland

Myrmecological News Blog is launching The Latitude Project – by using latitudes to circle the globe, we collect impressions of the ants of the world...

News

29 April 2019

Nature Lovers Will Swarm to Hear Dr. Mark Moffett (aka Dr. Bugs) Speak About The Social Lives of Ants & Humans

Widely known for his articles and photographs in National Geographic Magazine, Mark W. Moffett, PhD, aka Dr. Bugs, has conducted research and written books on...

Photoblog

24 April 2019

Ants of Madagascar: A guide to the 62 genera

Madagascar has over 1300 ant species, the result of > 80 million years of isolation from continental Africa and Asia. Two of the most aggressive...

Interviews

18 April 2019

Doing an ant PostDoc: Kaitlin M. Baudier

Kaitlin M. Baudier is a postdoctoral research associate at Arizona State University. She works on defense allocation and group on group aggression in a variety...

(Re)Views

16 April 2019

Ants of the MesoAmerican Corridor (ADMAC)

ADMAC (Ants of the MesoAmerican Corridor) is an NSF-funded project to better understand ant diversification in the thin connector region between North and South America....

Interviews

10 April 2019

Talc powder & ethanol: A simple and efficient method for preventing ants from escaping

In the recently published article “A simple and efficient method for preventing ant escape (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” in Myrmecological News by Dongdong Ning, Fan Yang, Qian...

News

09 April 2019

The Harvard Museum of Natural History presents a free public, livestreamed lecture: Chasing ants in the rainforest

The Harvard Museum of Natural History and the Microbial Sciences Initiative at Harvard University are hosting Corrie Moreau, Moser Professor of Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity,...