Category: Interviews

Biologists are often only able to observe the end result of the process of speciation by studying clearly separated species, and rarely get the chance...

Ant colonies can be dense, which may have some hidden costs. Pathogens and parasites find rich pickings in these tightly packed societies, and some have...

In a groundbreaking study, “One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants”, Jonathan Romiguier – an evolutionary biologist at the University of...

In this interview, Defu Chen describes his recent study, in Myrmecological News, “Changes in the aggressiveness of invasive red imported fre ants towards native ants:...

Understanding species boundaries is one of the central challenges in modern taxonomy, particularly in groups containing morphologically similar species. In their study on Neotropical Strumigenys...

In their recently published review “Ground-nesting ants as engineers of microbial landscape”, Longmeyer et al. compiled our current scientific knowledge about ground-nesting ants and their...

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...