Doing an ant PostDoc: Anindita Brahma
Anindita Brahma was born and brought up in Calcutta (now known as Kolkata), India. She was introduced to Zoology at an early age, all thanks...
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Climbing the mountain: it’s not all about physiology
In the recently published article “Coping with temperature extremes: thermal tolerance and behavioral plasticity in desert leaf-cutting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) across an altitudinal gradient” by...
Unexpected encounter – Argentine ants in Nantes, France
I was recently contacted by Myrmecological News’ blog to write a post about our paper recently published in Insectes Sociaux: “Invasive in the North: New...
Ants in remote continental islands
In the article, soon to be published, “Sampling insects at remote and threatened regions: The ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador, South America”,...
The Latitude Project – 30° North – Florida
Myrmecological News Blog has launched ‘The Latitude Project’ – we circle the globe by latitude to collect impressions of the ants of the world in...
Ants effectively control the damaging pear psyllid in Mediterranean orchards
In the recently published article “Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) reduce the density of Cacopsylla pyri (Linnaeus, 1761) in Mediterranean pear orchards” published in Myrmecological News, Sanchez,...
Getting inspired by aspiring young myrmecologists
Myrmecology can be open to people of all ages and nationalities if they do their research and put effort into their studies. My name is...
Rainforest ants of the Eungella region in Central Queensland Coast, Australia
In the recently published article “Rainforest ants along an elevational gradient at Eungella in the Clarke Range, Central Queensland Coast, Australia”, the authors C.J. Burwell...
Ant-mimicking spider actively selects its mimetic model
Stano Pekár is a behavioural ecologist and arachnologist at the Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. He focuses on the interactions between predators and their...
Ant crickets associated with the invasive yellow crazy ant Anoplolepis gracilipes
Together with six colleagues, Brian Po-Wei Hsu recently published a part of his Master’s thesis in the Myrmecological News article “Ant crickets (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae) associated...
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