Category: Photoblog

Arizona wasn’t always a prime target on my travel list. However, that all changed last year when I heard about the “Ants of the Southwest”...

In the recently published article “When and how obstacle size and the number of foragers affect clearing a foraging trail in leaf-cutting ants” in Insectes...

In the recent paper “Taxonomic revision of the genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Taiwan and Japan, with a key to East Asian species”...

Ecuador is one of the places with the highest biodiversity on Earth. Despite the country’s relatively small size, it encompasses a variety of diverse regions....

In the recently published article “Habitat complexity affects functional traits and diversity of ant assemblages in urban green spaces (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)“, Sabine S. Nooten, Patrick...

In the recent article “Community structure and ant species diversity across select sites of Western Ghats, India” published in Acta Ecologica Sinica, Javid M. Dad,...

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...