Doing an ant PostDoc: Gabriela Camacho
Gabriela Camacho is an ant systematist working as a post-doctoral researcher at North Carolina State University in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences. Originally,...
Monthly Archive: July 2019
Obstacle size affects clearing foraging trails in leaf-cutting ants
In the recently published article “When and how obstacle size and the number of foragers affect clearing a foraging trail in leaf-cutting ants” in Insectes...
Social parasitism: tricky questions
The various shades of social parasitism in ants have been considered to be among the most intriguing life histories out there. And since long, the...
Ponera ants from Taiwan and Japan
In the recent paper “Taxonomic revision of the genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Taiwan and Japan, with a key to East Asian species”...
Corpse management of the invasive Argentine ant
In the recent article “Corpse management of the invasive Argentine ant inhibits growth of pathogenic fungi” by Jenni Kesäniemi, Janne J. Koskimäki, and Jaana Jurvansuu...
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