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#Ants hold a grudge – they remember who attacked them and fight back harder against those enemy colonies! Our new paper led by @bey_melanie is now published @CurrentBiology sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Everybody wants to look like a #Crematogaster #ant in the #Mediterranean, including in #Tunisia! 🇹🇳 Researchgate: tinyurl.com/2s3875n3 @TunAssoWildlife

Our Observation of the Day is the first Sri Lankan Relict Ant (Aneuretus simoni) posted to iNaturalist! Seen in Sri Lanka by clurarit. This species is listed as Critically Endangered by @IUCNRedList: iucnredlist.org/species/1290/3… More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/2…

New PhD positions in tropical insect ecology at our institute - highly recommended.

Help students attend the 2026 IUSSI conference in Freiburg, Germany! 🐝 Our goal is to support at least 4 students. Let's raise more than $10,000 and show our support for students in our community! 🐝 PLEASE donate if you can! Scan this QR code, or click the link in the thread 🐝

On for the experts, please see the comment I'll post in reply. If it's true I would be stoked. Please tag or share with anyone who can help. Location Malaysia #entomology @buglife_ict @RoyEntSoc #Myrmecology

Introducing 3D-printed oak galls as artificial nests for arboreal #ants, with first results on leaf damage reduction on #olive trees Out on @MyrmecolNews Researchgate: tinyurl.com/5cyzs8k7

Happy to share our new publication about the ecology of an amazing group, the red wood ants! Hope that you enjoy the reading! 🐜🐜🐜 #RedWoodAnts #Ant_ecology #Adaptation 🐜🐜🐜 @bikmakk @AntsWarsaw @MiIZ_PAS Link 👉🏼bioone.org/journals/annal…

A bad day for the dinosaurs turned out to be a pretty good day for ants. According to a new study led by Smithsonian entomologist and curator Ted Schultz, colonies of ants began farming fungi when an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago. Read more: s.si.edu/47QDtNK

@AYinp0rt wow, the right one is gorgeous! maybe this is a translation error on X, but i can't find a P. siamensis on antwiki/antweb- or is it a subspecies?

まだ産卵はしてないですが、状態はだいぶ落ち着いてきました。 ルフィペスも産卵止まってから再開するまで最大3ヶ月ぐらいかかる時もあるし、数日で産む時もあるから読めないけど餌も食べて動きみてても大丈夫そうですね。 そして、やっぱり大きい！足も長い？ 赤茶っぽいのがシアメンシスです🐜

A new species of #ant described from #Italy: happily presenting you Temnothorax apenninicus! 🎉🐜 Read it on Researchgate: tinyurl.com/b3dcb5s3 doi.org/10.3897/evolsy…

New ant species showing wound care behaviour! 🐜🚑 In this new study we describe wound care in the desert ant Cataglyphis nodus. Interestingly, sterile injuries received more attention than infected ones and there might be a good reason for doing so... a short thread 🧵 (1/6)

@ant__frank loosk like M. ruginodis

A Myrmica species tending aphids in Switzerland 🇨🇭, 2024

Preprint alert! 🐜 🧬 The first from my PhD with @DanielKronauer, with an assist from @teraxurato. We discovered an unusual case of “unselfish” meiotic drive while studying asexual reproduction and its genomic consequences in the clonal raider ant. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

TERAYAMA, M., K. KINOMURA and R. KITAZAWA: Two New Species of the Ant Genus Myrmica Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from Japan JJSE 30(1): 74-85. #Hymenoptera zoobank.org/References/0C6…

@ant__frank @antmuseum gorgeous!

Seeing Ant Course friends in Lausanne brought back memories from the course. Here is one of my favourite species from then, a Colobostruma. Thanks Doug Booher @antmuseum for showing me a colony!

New paper on "wing-slapping," the defensive behavior of #honeybee, now out in @ESAEcology! Watch the full video set to the cool music of #MIYAVI (@MIYAVI_OFFICIAL), who’s renowned for his guitar slapping! 🐝⬇️⬇️⬇️🐝 youtube.com/watch?v=8N2IUR… Paper info: doi.org/10.1002/ecy.43…

Today: Last chance to benefit from the early bird fee! You are a #zoology scientists and plan to join the @ZoolSocietyGer AnnualMeeting? Register on tinyurl.com/dzg2024. Tomorrow, regular fee will apply. See you in Stuttgart! @netzwerk__HIB @eurotaxonomy @NFDI4BioDiv #Biology

Join @uni_mainz 🇩🇪for a PhD project on the mechanisms of sex determination in ants 🐜 with @miya_qpan @ketting_rene @KellerValsecchi. Multiple PhD positions available through the genevo-rtg.de consortium. #MolecularBiology #EvolutionaryBiology Deadline 15th July!

Check out Qionghua Gao’s description of Ooceraea hainingensis (along with @ChengyuanLiu7, @DanielKronauer, me & others). Its relative, the clonal raider ant (Ooceraea biroi) lacks queens, but O. hainingensis has queens! Its namesake is Haining, China. tinyurl.com/bdf5byyj