Doing an ant PhD: Claudio Rabelo dos Santos Neto
Claudio Rabelo dos Santos-Neto is 34 years old and a biologist from Brazil. He did his master’s degree at the National Institute of Amazonian Research...
Monthly Archive: June 2019
A photographic journey to the ants of the Ecuadorian Chocó
Ecuador is one of the places with the highest biodiversity on Earth. Despite the country’s relatively small size, it encompasses a variety of diverse regions....
Dietary specialisation in the mushroom harvesting ant Euprenolepis procera
Sofia Lizon à l’Allemand and Christoph von Beeren recently published their interesting new paper „Competition as possible driver of dietary specialisation in the mushroom harvesting...
Patrick Krapf
My name is Patrick Krapf, and I am the coordinator of the Myrmecological News Blog. In spring 2023, I joined the SpecIAnt group of Jonna...
Émeline Favreau
My name is Emeline Favreau. I am currently a postdoc at University College London, UK. I am working on understanding the evolution of social organisation...
Roberta Gibson
My name is Roberta Gibson. I am an entomologist and also a writer/blogger. I have a BS in Forest Biology/Entomology from SUNY College of Environmental...
Julia Giehr
My name is Julia Giehr. I am a Ph.D. student at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Zoology at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Currently,...
Phil Hoenle
Hey, my name is Phil and I love everything about ants since I first started collecting them. My curiosity began during vacations in Croatia, where...
Dispersal strategies in ants
In the recently published review article “Evolution of dispersal in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a review on the dispersal strategies of sessile superorganisms”, Sanja M. Hakala,...
Alice Laciny
Insects have fascinated me for as long as I can remember. After finishing school, I followed my heart and studied zoology at the University of...
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