Ants in the city: Pest or ecosystem service provider?
In the recent review article, “Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and ecosystem functions and services in urban areas: a reflection on a diverse literature”, published in Myrmecological...
Category: Interviews
Interview with Michel Chapuisat
In the recent review article, “Supergenes as drivers of ant evolution”, published in Myrmecological News, Michel Chapuisat provided a thorough analysis of concepts and findings...
Ants modify their behaviour to transport additional brood during colony relocation
In the recent article “Adult-brood ratio causes behavioural modifications to maintain transport performance during colony relocation in the Ponerine ant Diacamma indicum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” published...
The armadillo ant Tatuidris tatusia and its weird anatomy
In the recent article, “Wonderfully weird: the head anatomy of the armadillo ant, Tatuidris tatusia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Agroecomyrmecinae), with evolutionary implications”, Richter et al.* investigate...
A glimpse into the gut microbiome of Costa Rican army ants
In the recent paper “Low diversity and host specificity in the gut microbiome community of Eciton army ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae) in a Costa Rican...
Supergenes matter for ant social structure
Michel Chapuisat reviews concepts and findings on supergenes in the recent article “Supergenes as drivers of ant evolution” published in Myrmecological News. Colony social structure...
Interview with Christina Kwapich
Christina Kwapich is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is interested in the behavior and ecology of animals, and has a...
Preferential food allocation in a worker subcaste of the invasive yellow crazy ant
In the recent publication “Preferential food allocation to an essential worker subcaste in the invasive yellow crazy ant, Anoplolepis gracilipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” published in Myrmecological...
‘Continuusparity’ in ants
In the recent article “Late-life fitness gains and reproductive death in Cardiocondyla obscurior ants” published in Life, the authors Luisa Maria Jaimes-Nino, Jürgen Heinze, and...
The first high-resolution global map of ant biodiversity and estimates of where future sampling could yield undiscovered species
In the recent paper “The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity” published in Science Advances, Kass and collaborators* investigate the global biodiversity patterns...
