The arrival of the imported red fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) to Europe
Invasive species can have severe impacts on the environments to which they are not native. They can harm native biodiversity, alter habitats, and disrupt human...
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How big-headed (Pheidole megacephala) ant invasion influenced lion prey choice
Some ant species are among the worst invaders in the world, and an invasion can come with strong consequences for ecosystem functioning. One infamous invasive...
The Diversification of Jürgen Heinze – a symposium
Dear fellow social insect researchers, To celebrate Prof. Jürgen Heinze’s career, a special symposium is being organised. This will be a hybrid event, and include...
Best Paper Award 2023
In 2023, Myrmecological News awards for the sixth time the Best Paper of the previous year. From January 9 to January 23, the editorial board...
Dispersal performance and gene flow in ants: Landscape genetics in the Brazilian Cerrado savanna
In the recent paper “Landscape genetics in a highly threatened environment: how relevant to ants is the physiognomic mosaic of the cerrado savanna?”, Marianne Azevedo-Silva,...
Salvatore Brunetti
My name is Salvatore Brunetti, and I have been a PhD student of the Molecular Ecology Group at the University of Innsbruck since January 2024....
Birgit Schlick-Steiner and Florian Steiner
We are Birgit Schlick-Steiner and Florian Steiner and have been doing ant research since 1997 and editing the journal Myrmecological News since 2003. In 2018,...
Ants feigning death: How and why?
In the recent review article “Death feigning in ants” published in Myrmecol. News, Danon Clemes Cardoso, Ítalo Cordeiro Canguçu Alves, Maykon Passos Cristiano, and Jürgen...
European IUSSI meeting – July 7 to 11, 2024 in Switzerland
Dear social insect lovers, dear friends and colleagues, We are excited to host the European meeting of the International Union for the Study of Social...
Three new species of the subterranean, enigmatic Leptanilla ants
In the recent paper “Three new species of the ant genus Leptanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from China, with a key to the world species”, the authors...
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