The Latitude Project – 30° North – Florida
Myrmecological News Blog has launched ‘The Latitude Project’ – we circle the globe by latitude to collect impressions of the ants of the world in...
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Ants effectively control the damaging pear psyllid in Mediterranean orchards
In the recently published article “Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) reduce the density of Cacopsylla pyri (Linnaeus, 1761) in Mediterranean pear orchards” published in Myrmecological News, Sanchez,...
Getting inspired by aspiring young myrmecologists
Myrmecology can be open to people of all ages and nationalities if they do their research and put effort into their studies. My name is...
Rainforest ants of the Eungella region in Central Queensland Coast, Australia
In the recently published article “Rainforest ants along an elevational gradient at Eungella in the Clarke Range, Central Queensland Coast, Australia”, the authors C.J. Burwell...
Ant-mimicking spider actively selects its mimetic model
Stano Pekár is a behavioural ecologist and arachnologist at the Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. He focuses on the interactions between predators and their...
Ant crickets associated with the invasive yellow crazy ant Anoplolepis gracilipes
Together with six colleagues, Brian Po-Wei Hsu recently published a part of his Master’s thesis in the Myrmecological News article “Ant crickets (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae) associated...
Interview with Philip S.Ward
Phil Ward is a myrmecologist and professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis. His extremely prolific work on ant systematics and phylogeny has...
Do we need field teaching?
[There will be a time after the current CoV crisis when we will be able to move freely and jointly again.]Biology is the science of...
Ants as host and intruder
In the recently published review article: “Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) as host and intruder: recent advances and future directions in the study of exploitative strategies” in...
Interview with Rebecca Clark
Rebecca Clark is an assistant professor in Animal Physiology at Siena College – a liberal arts college in New York (USA). Her research, in general,...
