Best Paper Award 2025
In 2026, Myrmecological News awards for the 8th time the Best Paper of the previous year. One paper of all contributions published in 2025 is...
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Diversity and evolution of the Acromyrmex octospinosus species complex: a century-old taxonomic puzzle
In the paper “Phylogenomic approach to integrative taxonomy resolves a century-old taxonomic puzzle and the evolutionary history of the Acromyrmex octospinosus species complex”, first author...
MonitAnt: European-level monitoring strategy for mound-building Formica ants
In the popular imagination, when we think about environmentally impactful ants, the first images that come to mind are often invasive ants (e.g. Argentine ants...
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.*...
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...
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