Ants feigning death: How and why?
In the recent review article “Death feigning in ants” published in Myrmecol. News, Danon Clemes Cardoso, Ítalo Cordeiro Canguçu Alves, Maykon Passos Cristiano, and Jürgen...
Monthly Archive: January 2024
European IUSSI meeting – July 7 to 11, 2024 in Switzerland
Dear social insect lovers, dear friends and colleagues, We are excited to host the European meeting of the International Union for the Study of Social...
Three new species of the subterranean, enigmatic Leptanilla ants
In the recent paper “Three new species of the ant genus Leptanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from China, with a key to the world species”, the authors...
Why developmental biology needs natural history: the case of Hylomyrma primavesi
A View by Brendon BoudinotEdited by Alice Laciny and Patrick Krapf In the recent paper “Biological notes, nest architecture, and morphology of the remarkable ant...
“The Queen is dead, long live the Queen”: Hylomyrma primavesi has ergatoid queens
In the recent paper “Biological notes, nest architecture and morphology of the remarkable ant Hylomyrma primavesi Ulysséa, 2021 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae)” published in Myrmecological News,...
replicAnt: a data generator to create annotated images
Deep learning in computer vision is revolutionising the study of animal behaviour. Despite the advantages of transfer learning for non-model species, it relies on manual...
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