Category: Interviews

Sylvia Cremer is professor and the leader of the Social Immunity group at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) in Klosterneuburg, Austria. Here, we...

Gabriela Camacho is an ant systematist working as a post-doctoral researcher at North Carolina State University in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences. Originally,...

The various shades of social parasitism in ants have been considered to be among the most intriguing life histories out there. And since long, the...

In the recent article “Corpse management of the invasive Argentine ant inhibits growth of pathogenic fungi” by Jenni Kesäniemi, Janne J. Koskimäki, and Jaana Jurvansuu...

Claudio Rabelo dos Santos-Neto is 34 years old and a biologist from Brazil. He did his master’s degree at the National Institute of Amazonian Research...

Sofia Lizon à l’Allemand and Christoph von Beeren recently published their interesting new paper „Competition as possible driver of dietary specialisation in the mushroom harvesting...

Veronika Mayer is a researcher at the University of Vienna. She investigates ant-plant symbioses in the tropics with special focus on fungiculture and nutrient cycles....

Myrmecological News Blog is launching The Latitude Project – by using latitudes to circle the globe, we collect impressions of the ants of the world...

Kaitlin M. Baudier is a postdoctoral research associate at Arizona State University. She works on defense allocation and group on group aggression in a variety...

In the recently published article “A simple and efficient method for preventing ant escape (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” in Myrmecological News by Dongdong Ning, Fan Yang, Qian...