Monthly Archive: December 2019

31 December 2019

A year has passed – what happened to your wishes for 2019?

At the beginning of the year, we wondered about the 2019 wish list of the myrmecological community. Now that a year has passed, eight researchers...

Interviews

18 December 2019

Interview with Christian Peeters

Christian Peeters is a research scientist at the French National Scientific Research Agency (CNRS). In this interview, we talk about his diverse research interests from...

Photoblog

11 December 2019

Ants of Hong Kong, SAR, China

The special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau are located in South-East Asia. Despite containing large cities and virtually no primary forest, both regions...

Photoblog

05 December 2019

Messing around with Atta sp. in Yucatan, Mexico

Recently there was a contribution by Andrea Marina Alma in this blog, „Obstacle size affects clearing foraging trails in leaf-cutting ants“. This photoblog made Alfred...

(Re)Views

03 December 2019

Trophallaxis: a charismatic quirk, simple food exchange, or an opportunity to conquer the world

Adria LeBoeuf recently started her own research group at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. She tries to understand how socially exchanged fluids evolve and...