Social regulation of insulin signaling in ants
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....
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Ant Course 2018
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...
Ant gardens of Camponotus irritabilis and Hoya elliptica in Southeast Asia
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...
The “Paramedic ants” of sub-Saharan Africa (Megaponera analis)
The “Paramedic ants” of sub-Saharan Africa (Megaponera analis) are currently being investigated in a multidisciplinary project at the University of Lausanne. A Photoblog contribution...
Exploring Tibetan ants
In their paper “Cryptic species of the Myrmica tibetana complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) revealed by integrative taxonomy” published in Myrmecological News in August 2018, Bernhard Seifert,...
Ophiocordyceps – ant infecting fungi
Ophiocordyceps is an ascomycetous genus comprising mostly entomopathogenic fungi. There are approximately 250 species described infecting hosts across 11 insect orders. Along its evolutionary history,...
Colobopsis explodens, a new “exploding ant”
The “exploding ants” of Southeast Asia are currently being investigated in the multidisciplinary WWTF project “Voluntary self-sacrifice in exploding ants: A mechanism to defend co-evolved...
Strobing in Australian strobe ants Opisthopsis haddoni
The strobe ants of Australia (Opisthopsis spp.) move with a rapid staccato gait, appearing as if they were under a strobe light. A Photoblog contribution...
