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🆕Review Article: Intramandibular glands in ants Billen, J. & Wang, C. #formicidae #mandibles #morphology #ultrastructure #review myrmecologicalnews.org/cms/index.php?…

New paper in #BiologyLetters: preliminary evidence for a less appreciated latitudinal biodiversity gradient – in how communities partition time⌛️🌞🌔 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Royal Society Publishing

Vulcanidris cratensis reconstruction. Founder queen with her first worker, second pupa on the way and two generations of larva feeding on prey item.

Very happy that the long, long, long, long, long overdue day when the published results of all NIH funded research is immediately freely available to everyone who can benefit from it. Kudos to the NIH for making this happen, and eternal curses to the scientific societies,

Ant illustration compilation, limited edition archival quality prints, each one signed and numbered, comes with a species key. carimnahaboo.com/products/formi…

An old photo I took during my first field season with a macro lens - checks notes - 20 years ago, in May 2005. I hadn’t discovered flash diffusion yet. But it’s a rarely witnessed scene: Eciton burchellii army ant workers collective carry a massive male larva. Henri Pittier NP.

"After three hours with nothing, I was about to turn back when I saw a shape dart across a big banana leaf. I shined my light and there it was." Learn more 👀 : buff.ly/WAMDZ4t

New review article! 📚 Fernando et al. conducted a global review of 98 studies showing how disturbances impact ant-plant and ant-insect interactions across climatic zones 🔥 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s00040… #Ecology #GlobalChange #SpeciesInteractions #Biodiversity #Conservation

エイコアブラバチ Paralipsis eikoae Yasumatsu, 1951

A focus stack of the striking Pseudoxycheila tarsalis — the Central American Montane Tiger Beetle — captured in the cloud forests of Mindo, Ecuador Shot on the OM System OM-1 Mark II paired with the 90mm f/3.5 PRO macro lens

The rich biodiversity of Canande Lodge, Ecuador, I came across this incredible Treehopper (Family: Membracidae). Its bizarre shape and textured body are just part of nature’s genius camouflage system. These fascinating insects often mimic thorns or plant debris to evade predators

Wanna know more about the enigmatic South American Cordillera del Cóndor and its biodiversity? Check our new paper about rough tree ants (Nesomyrmex) tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

New paer alert 📢 including data from Taï Chimpanzee Project , chimpanzees show key elements of human musical rhythm with different rhythms in Eastern and Western #chimpanzees. Paper drumming shows rhythmicity and subspecies variation: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…

Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out nature nature.com/articles/s4158… 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 🫎🦋🐝🪲 Unprecedented #synthesis of >2000 studies shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🧵1/4

Luisa Jaimes, PhD & Oettler discovered that ant queens show no heritability in fertility/lifespan, but reveal surprising anti-aging mechanisms ⏳ 🔗doi.org/10.1007/s00040… #InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #Genetics #EvolutionaryBiology #Heritability

just published Ecological Monographs THE UNITS OF BIODIVERSITY How, where and what to measure in biodiversity research?

Finally got around to incorporating all Github feedback on my open access textbook, making around 20 minor improvements, and updating some references. 17 chapters of state of the art stats and methods education, freely available for any course you teach. lakens.github.io/statistical_in…

ヤマトウロコアリ Strumigenys japonica

I think the current state of social science research is pretty bad and I wrote something for Asterisk about it.

What makes a queen successful? 👑 In this blog, Luisa Jaimes, PhD explores how queen age and fertility might shape the future of the colony in Cardiocondyla obscurior ants. insectessociaux.com/2025/05/20/wha… #InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #AntQueens #Aging #Fertility #Colony