Category: Interviews

Ant communication has long been viewed as dominated by chemical signals, yet growing evidence suggests a more complex picture. In their Focus contribution, “Multimodal communication...

Patrick Heidbreder and Jonna Kulmuni, first and last authors, discuss their recent review article in Myrmecol. News on speciation in ants. They highlight the significant, yet underutilized...

Nils Schumacher is a PhD student at the University of South Bohemia in Budweis, Czech Republic. Under supervision of the New Guinea ant expert Petr Klimes,...

The study, “the nightjar and the ant: Intercontinental migration reveals a cryptic interaction”, by Carlos Camacho and colleagues, uncovers a remarkable and little-known interaction between...

In addition to shaping human landscape, urbanization is also shaping city dwelling animal species. In the new study “Urbanisation homogenises the functional trait space and...

Ants have thrived with intricate symbioses with bacteria for over 50 million years. Yet despite growing interest and technological advances, many aspects of these relationships...

It is high time to put in the spotlight the Subject Editors of Myrmecol. News that have worked for many years to help the journal...

In their recently published paper, Di Li and her co-authors illuminate the internal and external morphology of Ooceraea biroi, an important model organism in myrmecological...

Alain Dejean, has dedicated his career to studying ants, especially focusing on their predatory behavior, their venom and interaction with plants. For his work he...

Lumi Viljakainen is a senior lecturer at the University of Oulu and a mother of three. Her research focuses on population genomics, evolution and ant...