Women’s History: Adele Marion Fielde
In some countries, March is Women’s History Month and a good time to remember the work of women who studied ants in centuries past.One such...
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Doing an ant PostDoc: Enikő Csata
Enikő Csata is 31 years old, and currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. Prior to her position here, she completed...
Ants to monitor pollution
Lauren Jacquier is a PhD student at the Sorbonne Université in Paris and is supervised by Mathieu Molet. In her PhD, she and her colleagues...
A photographic glimpse into Brazil’s ant diversity
Brazil is the largest country of South America and famous for its high biodiversity, glorious foods, and beautiful beaches. So when I got the chance...
A new open and upgradable database reveals the geographical distribution of Mexican ants
In the recently published article “MEXICO ANTS: incidence and abundance along the Nearctic-Neotropical interface” in Ecology, Wesley Dáttilo and colleagues compiled all information available on...
Best Paper Award 2019
In 2020, Myrmecological News awards for the second time the Best Paper of the previous year. From 7 January to 21 January, the editorial board...
First record of the genus Overbeckia in Australia
In the recently published article “First record of the formicine genus Overbeckia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Australia” in Myrmecol. News, author Brian Heterick describes specimens of...
Myrmecophilous organisms associated with the ponerine ant Neoponera villosa
In the recently published article “Myrmecophilous organisms associated with colonies of the ponerine ant Neoponera villosa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) nesting in Aechmea bracteata bromeliads: a biodiversity...
Book Review on Hormigas de Colombia
Fernando Fernández Castiblanco, Roberto José Guerrero Flórez, Thibaut Delsinne (eds.). 2019. Hormigas de Colombia. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, eISBN: 9789587837667. COP 49.900, EUR approx. 14...
Myrmecologenesis: rain forests, research, and a rejection letter
Lukas Schrader is an assistant researcher at the Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity at the University of Münster, Germany. His work focuses on the evolution...
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