Do #zombie #fungi affect ant gut microbiomes? It sure seems so, especially the gut fungi! And, specifically during behavior manipulation as well! Check out our new pre-print which poses that gut microbes have a role to play in zombie ant behavior 🧟‍♀️🐜🍄doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Another new non-native ant to Britain! This time Solenopsis abdita, again from climatically controlled tropical greenhouses.
ResearchGate - tinyurl.com/227e2s26
PM for paper

Ants on the cover of Ecography! The predatory 𝘖𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴, a ground-dwelling species of the Australian Wet Tropics, check out our paper here: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec…
Thanks François Brassard for the beautiful photo François Brassard Ecography

Some very stylish flies in Peru, such as this yellow-headed stratiomyid.

Cyphomyia sp.

Does anyone have an original copy of Am. Nat. American Naturalist Vol. 100 (1966) they are willing to part with? Am keen to obtain the book as it contains a study (among many others) that continues to inspire, by one of my fave ecologists of all time...

This may be one of the biggest papers I ever have the privilege to be part of.

Out now in Science Magazine, we ask: Are nature conservation interventions working?

The answer is YES. We now need to fund MORE to reverse global biodiversity declines.

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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new *paper* together with Johan Billen:

The original histological sections of myrmecophilous and termitophilous #beetles of Erich Wasmann (1859–1931)
doi.org/10.1007/s00040…
Insectes Sociaux

The University of South Bohemia (Czechia) offers a research-focused 2-yr Master's programme in Ecology. Applications deadline on 19 May 2024. See prf.jcu.cz/ecology, questions Petr Blažek: [email protected].

I recorded almost 600 species of moths in Borneo last month. Hope this checklist can help some folks in identifying moths that they find!
bit.ly/moths-trusmadi

New book chapter on ant conservation in the Neotropics with Jack Longino link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

Myrmecia froggatti - Leeton, NSW

This is a very cryptic species. They likely form very small colonies, with less than 20 workers.

#ants #australia #entomology

Czech Republic butterfly barcoding is now out in Journal of Biogeography! 🦋🌍🇨🇿Rounding it up to my 10th 1st author paper🥰Open access thanks to Biology Centre CAS onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Want to know more about how honeybees talk each other by waggling their abdomen? Then you could read my new little dispatch that highlights a super cool recent paper from Barbara Webb‘s group. authors.elsevier.com/a/1izTE3QW8S6D… Current Biology Lund Vision Group

Super excited to get the Molecular Ecology May 2024 issue cover with my own photo on our New guinean Toxic bird research (Michael Poulsen, BeemelmannsLab, UCPH Social and Symbiotic Evolution Group)! To add a cherry on top, our work was also highlighted in the issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…!

Bernd_leohockbarpold found an amber collection in the Phyletisches Museum ! We clarify as much as possible where it comes from (most of it turned out as young african copal), described the species in it and reviewed fossil taxonomy for some of the included groups.
dez.pensoft.net/article/112433/

Is biology predictable? This is a hard problem, relevant across scales, from conservation to the human microbiome. Check this Nature Reviews Microbiology paper by Allison Lopatkin, PhD & James Collins. Barcelona Collaboratorium Víctor de Lorenzo Manlio De Domenico Daniel R. Amor static1.squarespace.com/static/5c26495…

Different feeding preferences for macronutrients across seasons and sites indicate temporal and spatial nutrient limitation in the black bog ant. Article on Formica picea to read as whole is available at: rdcu.be/dE91w

A tremendous honor ....

Messor capitatus from last weekends trip to Croatia🇭🇷 The majorsof this species feature some big heads!

🌈waiting for the traffic to thin out a bit after the eclipse, I spotted this BEAUTIFUL rainbow scarab (Phanaeus vindex) dung beetle crawling about the clovers.

First time photographing a male of this species - note the large horn! 🤩