Category: Photoblog

Temporary social parasitism, where the parasite ant invades a host colony, kills its queen and uses the host workers to rear the offspring of the...

In their study published today in Myrmecological News, Zhuang et al. revealed two extraordinary fossils preserved in 99-million-year-old Burmese amber. These findings shed fresh light on...

A Photoblog contribution by Phil Hoenle. All pictures © by Phil Hoenle. Edit by Florian Steiner and Salvatore Brunetti In this photoblog contribution, Phil Hoenle shares...

Edited by Elia Guariento and Salvatore Brunetti A Photoblog Contribution compiled by Gema Trigos-Peral In the recent study “Urban diet as a potential cause of low body fat content...

In the recent study “Climate microrefugia promote intraspecific trait variability of the Palaearctic ant species Myrmica ruginodis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” carried out in Hungary, the authors...

In a recent study, “Bacterial communities associated with a polydomous arboreal ant: inter-nest variation and interaction with the phyllosphere of a tropical tree“, researchers investigated...

Circadian rhythms are ubiquitous to almost all life, and ants are no exception. Many species are run by an internal clock which is adjusted by...

In the recent paper “Landscape genetics in a highly threatened environment: how relevant to ants is the physiognomic mosaic of the cerrado savanna?”, Marianne Azevedo-Silva,...

In the recent review article “Death feigning in ants” published in Myrmecol. News, Danon Clemes Cardoso, Ítalo Cordeiro Canguçu Alves, Maykon Passos Cristiano, and Jürgen...

Deep learning in computer vision is revolutionising the study of animal behaviour. Despite the advantages of transfer learning for non-model species, it relies on manual...