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...
Myrmecological News Blog
Doing an ant PhD: Rohini Singh
Rohini Singh was born in India where she did all her education. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology, after which she moved...
A whole lot of zombies: parasitic manipulation in ants
In the recently published review paper “The ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and their parasites: effects of parasitic manipulations and host responses on ant behavioral ecology” in...
Interview with Deborah M. Gordon
Deborah M Gordon received her PhD in zoology from Duke University in 1983 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows,...
How to dissect a superorganism
In the recently published paper “Temporal variation in social structure and worker reproduction in the temporary social parasite Lasius fuliginosus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)“, Tobias van Elst...
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...
Amber insights: a putative ancestor “too early” and the legacy of Gennady M. Dlussky
In the recently published paper “A new extinct ant genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from the Late Eocene Rovno amber – a putative ancestor of the...
Doing an ant Phd: Jonathan R. Morris
Jonathan Richard Morris is a 31-year-old PhD student in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He grew up in the state of...
Conflict and cooperation: in ant research
What do people associate with ants (besides kitchen visits)? I bet many will name cooperation and conflict. These also shape human society, including research, and...
Ant research in the genomic era: advances and prospects
In the recently published review paper “Genes and genomic processes underpinning the social lives of ants” in Current Opinion in Insect Sciene (2018), Emeline Favreau,...
