Diversity at Myrmecological News Blog
The Myrmecological News Blog was launched on 24 May 2018. Over these six years, our team has undergone significant growth. We have published a total...
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Environment-driven shifts in ant communities over six decades
In the paper “Temperature-driven homogenization of an ant community over 60 years in a montane ecosystem“, Anna Paraskevopoulos and colleagues have used ants as a...
Navigating through the postdoc career while exploring navigation systems in 𝐶𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑙𝑦𝑝ℎ𝑖 desert ants
Desert ants of the genus Cataglyphis have long fascinated ethologists for their navigational skills and adaptations, providing textbook examples for the study of orientation in...
Exploring the bacterial communities of polydomous ant colonies
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...
Trophic Eggs as Exclusive Strategy for Nutritional Sharing in Black Cocoa Ants
Trophic eggs are inviable eggs or egg-like structure without an embryo and are not meant for reproduction. Such eggs can be considered a form of...
Interview with Lotta Sundström
Liselotte, “Lotta”, Sundström is a professor emerita at the University of Helsinki and renowned for her work on Formica exsecta. She started her ant research...
Ants as hosts of honeybee viruses
In their new review article “Occurrence of honey bee (Apis mellifera) pathogens in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a systematic review” , Tiritelli et al. investigated occurrences...
Comparing daily activity of five Japanese ant species
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...
Tiny queens, supergenes, and much more
In the paper “Social antagonism facilitates supergene expansion in ants” published in Current Biology, Giulia Scarparo, Marie Palanchon, Alan Brelsford, and Jessica Purcell investigated the...
Larvae influence foraging behaviour in acorn ants
A commentary by Eva Schultner accompanying the new study by Jalen D. Dunn et al., “Larval chemical cues induce rapid changes in foraging preferences of...
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