Building a city – without an architect
New York, Rome, or Tokio are prominent examples of a human metropolis and seen as a demonstration of human ingenuity and culture. To reach their...
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Central European Workshop of Myrmecology September 27 to 30, 2019 in Regensburg
The 8th Central European Workshop of Myrmecology will be held from September 27 to 30, 2019 at the University of Regensburg, Germany. News by Julia...
IUSSI Meeting 2018 in Guarujá, Brazil
Every four years, entomologists from all over the world come together to talk about their favourite topic: social insects. In August 2018, the international meeting...
Muurahaiset. That’s ants in Finnish.
How is the ant society organized? How do ants communicate? Will these ants fight if I bring them together? Who will win? How come there...
The “Paramedic ants” of sub-Saharan Africa (Megaponera analis)
The “Paramedic ants” of sub-Saharan Africa (Megaponera analis) are currently being investigated in a multidisciplinary project at the University of Lausanne. A Photoblog contribution...
Experiments on collective decision-making during food recruitment make no (ecological) sense
A View compiled by Tomer J. Czaczkes Collective decision making is an important topic, especially for social insect researchers. Broadly, it asks how groups...
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