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The tarantulas that decided to live with ants
by Gabriel Pompozzi Gabriel is a researcher at CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina), based at the Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas (IADIZA)...
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Interview with a social insect scientist: Hannes Bonhoff
Hannes is a newly graduated master’s student of biology at Lund University, Sweden. His main interests are social insects and evolutionary transitions in individuality, with a master’s thesis on honey...
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Beyond what meets the eye: where do the galleries of arboreal termite nests...
Mário Herculano de Oliveira is a biologist and Ph.D. in Ecology and Conservation with over a decade of research experience in social insect behavior and ecology. Since 2013, his work has focused on...
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Interview with a social insect scientist: Samuel J. John
Samuel John is the co-founder of Spiders and The Sea where he works as an educator bringing people closer to nature. He is also an independent writer and researcher. John is particularly curious about...
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Not only do bees dance: underground communication between ants and root...
By Laís da Silva Bomfim Laís da Silva Bomfim is a doctoral researcher in Zoology at the State University of Santa Cruz (UESC), Brazil. Since her undergraduate studies, she has focused on the natural...
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The ant that steals its neighbour’s dinner, and gets away with it
By Hayato Shinohara Hayato is a doctoral student at the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Ehime University, conducting research on ant ecology. In particular, he focus on the symbiotic...
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Interview with a social insect scientist: Judith Korb
Judith Korb is an evolutionary biologist and ecologist, using termites as primary model systems. Her scientific focus is on the evolution of cooperation, chemical communication and ageing as well the...
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If you give a mouse to a colony
By Erica Maul Erica Maul is a Ph.D. candidate in biological sciences at Auburn University, working in the Smith Bee Lab. Erica studies honey bee nest architecture and how bees employ propolis in their...
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Colony fusion – an inclusive fitness conundrum
By Rebecca Padget, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Bristol using modelling inspired by cool animal systems to understand how and why animals cooperate in groups. Her latest work...
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The weight of a meal: how the giant queenless ants make tough decisions
By Arrilton Araujo, Igor Eloi and Dina Azevedo Imagine an ant the size of your thumb, hunting alone and carefully weighing its prey before deciding whether the effort is worth it. In their latest work...
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Between vineyards and desert: one termite, two species?
By Damien Gergonne, postdoctoral fellow in Stellenbosch University’s Genetics Department (Insect & Fungi team) and Mathematics Department (Biomath group). Last research in Insectes Sociaux, also...
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Size matters: how different sized workers navigate the unknown
By Hyein Jo Hyein is a PhD student at UCLA studying behavioral ecology, focusing on how individual behaviors shape the collective actions of ant colonies. Her journey began during her Master’s at...
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Interview with a social insect scientist: Chinmay Joshi
Chinmay Joshi grew up photographing insects in India and never really stopped. Now a fresh PhD from the University of Arizona, he studies how ant colonies hold together when things go wrong. A...
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Interview with a social insect scientist: Thomas Parmentier
Thomas is a researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, specialising in social insects and their stowaway guests: myrmecophiles, organisms that live as parasites or in symbiosis within ant...
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From leaf to ant nest and back again: The life and escape strategy of a...
By Yu Hisasue Yu is a Japanese entomologist and taxonomist based at the Ogasawara Division of the Japan Wildlife Research Center in Chichijima. His research focuses on biodiversity, systematics, and...
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The Queen’s Gambit: how polyandry gives trap-jaw ant queens a competitive edge
By Henrique Silva Florindo, Marianne Azevedo-Silva, Miguel P. Pereira-Romeiro and Gustavo M. Mori. Their last work in Insectes Sociaux can be read here. In some ant societies, one queen is often...
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Fire bees and treehoppers work Together: A newly discovered partnership
By Bruno M. Gomes Bruno is a PhD student in Entomology at the University of São Paulo in Ribeirão Preto, with a keen interest in the behavioral ecology and natural history of social insects,...
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Insectes Sociaux becomes PCI-friendly: what does this mean?
The scientific journal Insectes Sociaux has become “PCI-friendly” in partnership with Peer Community In (https://peercommunityin.org/) — an opportunity to speed up and increase the transparency of...
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The surprising vulnerability of a termite’s secret roomate
By Igor Eloi Igor is a PhD student based at the UFRN campus on the brazilian coast. He is fascinated by how social insects, like termites, behave and interact with other species. In this blog, he...
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Hovering battles at the ant nest: the remarkable behavior of a rare ant...
By Satsuki Kajiwara Satsuki is a PhD student in the Entomology Laboratory at Kyushu University, Japan, where she studies ant-associated parasitoid wasps. In this blog post, she shares her discovery of...
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