Always keep your samples in a freezer
In the study “Variable viral loads and immune response in an invasive ant’s native and introduced ranges” published in Diversity and Distributions, Felden et al.*...
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Interview with Lotta Sundström
Liselotte, “Lotta”, Sundström is a professor emerita at the University of Helsinki and renowned for her work on Formica exsecta. She started her ant research...
Tiny queens, supergenes, and much more
In the paper “Social antagonism facilitates supergene expansion in ants” published in Current Biology, Giulia Scarparo, Marie Palanchon, Alan Brelsford, and Jessica Purcell investigated the...
Doing an ant PhD: Giulia Blasi
Hello, my name is Giulia Blasi, and I am 26 years old. I grew up in a small town in the suburban area of Milan,...
Dispersal performance and gene flow in ants: Landscape genetics in the Brazilian Cerrado savanna
In the recent paper “Landscape genetics in a highly threatened environment: how relevant to ants is the physiognomic mosaic of the cerrado savanna?”, Marianne Azevedo-Silva,...
Birgit Schlick-Steiner and Florian Steiner
We are Birgit Schlick-Steiner and Florian Steiner and have been doing ant research since 1997 and editing the journal Myrmecological News since 2003. In 2018,...
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...
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...
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