Army Ants: Nature’s Ultimate Social Hunters
Kronauer D. 2020 Army Ants: Nature’s Ultimate Social Hunters. – Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 384 pp; ISBN 978-0674241558, EU € 58.50 A Book...
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The Latitude Project – 30° North – Algeria
Myrmecological News Blog has launched The Latitude Project – by using latitudes to circle the globe, we collect impressions of the ants of the world...
Revisiting Sri Lankan ants – an international effort
In the recent paper “The Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Sri Lanka: a taxonomic research summary and updated checklist”, Ratnayake Kaluarachchige Sriyani Dias, Benoit Guénard, Shahid...
Ant species of Sumatra Island, Indonesia
The island of Sumatra in Indonesia is the sixth-largest island in the world and one of the main components of the Malay Archipelago. It harbours...
Viruses and their effects in ants
In the review article by Baty et al. (2020) “Viruses and their effects in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” published in Myrmecological News, the authors conduct a...
Viruses of ants – diversity and impact
In the review article by Baty et al. (2020) “Viruses and their effects in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” published in Myrmecological News, the authors conduct a...
Doing an ant PhD: Nokuthula Mbanyana-Nhleko
My name is Nokuthula Mbanyana-Nhleko. I am a curator at Iziko Museums of South Africa in the Entomology Department and also registered for a PhD...
James Trager
James C. Trager is a North American ant taxonomist who did his Ph.D. and subsequent 4-year post-doctoral position at the University of Florida from 1980-1988....
Defensive, antimicrobial, and insecticidal gland secretion in the Bornean ant Colobopsis explodens
In the recent article “Strong antimicrobial and low insecticidal activity of mandibular gland reservoir content in Bornean ‘exploding ants’ Colobopsis explodens Laciny & Zettel, 2018...
Ants Among Mesoamerican Ruins
In January 2020, before the corona crisis, I was lucky to have had the opportunity to go on a two-week short trip to Mexico. My...
