Category: Photoblog

Madagascar has over 1300 ant species, the result of > 80 million years of isolation from continental Africa and Asia. Two of the most aggressive...

In the recently published article “Snap-jaw morphology is specialized for high-speed power amplification in the Dracula ant, Mystrium camillae“ in Royal Society Open Science, Fredrick...

In the article “A new species of the ant genus Lasius Fabricius, 1804 from Crete” recently published in ZooKeys, Sebastian Salata and Lech Borowiec describe...

In his review article “Neuroplasticity in desert ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) – importance for the ontogeny of navigation” published in Myrmecological News in January 2019, Wolfgang...

In the article “Viral infections in fire ants lead to reduced foraging activity and dietary changes” recenty published in Scientific Reports, Hung-Wei Hsu, Ming-Chung Chiu,...

In the recently published paper “Ants of the genus Protalaridris (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), more than just deadly mandibles” in European Journal of Entomology, the authors John...

Every four years, entomologists from all over the world come together to talk about their favourite topic: social insects. In August 2018, the international meeting...

In the paper “Social regulation of insulin signaling and the evolution of eusociality in ants” recently published in Science, Vikram Chandra, Ingrid Fetter-Pruneda, Peter R....

This year, the 17th Ant Course was held in French Guiana at the stunning and remote Inselberg research station of Nouragues Nature Reserve, which contains...

Camponotus irritabilis (Formicidae: Formicinae) and Hoya elliptica (Apocynaceae) have a close association in ant gardens in Malaya and Sumatra. The ants selectively retrieve the seeds...