Myrmecological News Blog

31 July 2019

Doing an ant PostDoc: Gabriela Camacho

Gabriela Camacho is an ant systematist working as a post-doctoral researcher at North Carolina State University in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences. Originally,...

Photoblog

24 July 2019

Obstacle size affects clearing foraging trails in leaf-cutting ants

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...

Interviews

17 July 2019

Social parasitism: tricky questions

The various shades of social parasitism in ants have been considered to be among the most intriguing life histories out there. And since long, the...

Photoblog

10 July 2019

Ponera ants from Taiwan and Japan

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”...

Interviews

03 July 2019

Corpse management of the invasive Argentine ant

In the recent article “Corpse management of the invasive Argentine ant inhibits growth of pathogenic fungi” by Jenni Kesäniemi, Janne J. Koskimäki, and Jaana Jurvansuu...

Interviews

26 June 2019

Doing an ant PhD: Claudio Rabelo dos Santos Neto

Claudio Rabelo dos Santos-Neto is 34 years old and a biologist from Brazil. He did his master’s degree at the National Institute of Amazonian Research...

Photoblog

19 June 2019

A photographic journey to the ants of the Ecuadorian Chocó

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....

Interviews

12 June 2019

Dietary specialisation in the mushroom harvesting ant Euprenolepis procera

Sofia Lizon à l’Allemand and Christoph von Beeren recently published their interesting new paper „Competition as possible driver of dietary specialisation in the mushroom harvesting...