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,...
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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...
Why developmental biology needs natural history: the case of Hylomyrma primavesi
A View by Brendon BoudinotEdited by Alice Laciny and Patrick Krapf In the recent paper “Biological notes, nest architecture, and morphology of the remarkable ant...
“The Queen is dead, long live the Queen”: Hylomyrma primavesi has ergatoid queens
In the recent paper “Biological notes, nest architecture and morphology of the remarkable ant Hylomyrma primavesi Ulysséa, 2021 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae)” published in Myrmecological News,...
replicAnt: a data generator to create annotated images
Deep learning in computer vision is revolutionising the study of animal behaviour. Despite the advantages of transfer learning for non-model species, it relies on manual...
Happy New Year 2024
The Myrmecological News Blog has been online for over five years now (wow – since May 2018), and each year, Myrmecological News Blog and its...
Camponotus ants and their endosymbionts – a good symbiosis or a struggle for resources?
In the recent article “Harbouring Blochmannia incurs costs: a trade-off between the necessity of the obligate primary endosymbiont for brood development and its costs for...
Long live the queen
In most organisms, reproduction usually leads to a shorter lifespan. However, in eusocial insects the queen lives much longer than the worker ants. In the...
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