IUSSI Meeting 2018 in Guarujá, Brazil
Every four years, entomologists from all over the world come together to talk about their favourite topic: social insects. In August 2018, the international meeting...
Myrmecological News Blog
Muurahaiset. That’s ants in Finnish.
How is the ant society organized? How do ants communicate? Will these ants fight if I bring them together? Who will win? How come there...
Social regulation of insulin signaling in ants
In the paper “Social regulation of insulin signaling and the evolution of eusociality in ants” recently published in Science, Vikram Chandra, Ingrid Fetter-Pruneda, Peter R....
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...
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 to...
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...
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