Supergenes matter for ant social structure
Michel Chapuisat reviews concepts and findings on supergenes in the recent article “Supergenes as drivers of ant evolution” published in Myrmecological News. Colony social structure...
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Socioeconomic and environmental impacts of ants
A View by *Monica A. M. Gruber, Davide Santoro, Meghan Cooling, Philip J. Lester, Benjamin D. Hoffmann, Christina Boser, Lori Lach Edited by: Gaurav Agavekar,...
Top 10 Blog Posts 2022
Each year, Myrmecological News Blog and its editorial team celebrate the end of the year with a Top 10 Blog Posts Special. We use this...
The Amazon Forest can still keep secrets from us
In the recent paper “Igaponera curiosa, a new ponerine genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Amazon” published in the European Journal of Taxonomy, Adrian Troya, Frederico...
Stuck in a stick: How do twig-nesting ants avoid heat stress?
In the study “Behavioral response to heat stress of twig‑nesting canopy ants” recently published in Oecologia, Jelena Bujan and Stephen Yanoviak tested the ability of...
Interview with Christina Kwapich
Christina Kwapich is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is interested in the behavior and ecology of animals, and has a...
The fast the tortuous: Turn up the heat, and ants turn down the turns
In the recent publication, “Higher soil temperatures cause faster running and more efficient homing in the temperate xerothermophilous ant Formica cinerea (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)”, the authors...
Preferential food allocation in a worker subcaste of the invasive yellow crazy ant
In the recent publication “Preferential food allocation to an essential worker subcaste in the invasive yellow crazy ant, Anoplolepis gracilipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” published in Myrmecological...
Different types of ants
Hello young readers! We hope you enjoyed our first post on understanding the ant parts. Are you ready for our next post? We are thrilled...
‘Continuusparity’ in ants
In the recent article “Late-life fitness gains and reproductive death in Cardiocondyla obscurior ants” published in Life, the authors Luisa Maria Jaimes-Nino, Jürgen Heinze, and...
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