Category: Interviews

Among ecologists, there are two perspectives for understanding ants’ impact on our world. One is a holistic, ecosystem-centric view that sees ants as engineers of...

In the paper “Temperature-driven homogenization of an ant community over 60 years in a montane ecosystem“, Anna Paraskevopoulos and colleagues have used ants as a...

Desert ants of the genus Cataglyphis have long fascinated ethologists for their navigational skills and adaptations, providing textbook examples for the study of orientation in...

Trophic eggs are inviable eggs or egg-like structure without an embryo and are not meant for reproduction. Such eggs can be considered a form of...

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...

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...

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,...

Invasive species can have severe impacts on the environments to which they are not native. They can harm native biodiversity, alter habitats, and disrupt human...

Some ant species are among the worst invaders in the world, and an invasion can come with strong consequences for ecosystem functioning. One infamous invasive...

In the recent paper “Biological notes, nest architecture and morphology of the remarkable ant Hylomyrma primavesi Ulysséa, 2021 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae)” published in Myrmecological News,...