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#myrmecologists #AntTwitter we need Monomorium samples (in 95% EtOH), especially species that are likely close relatives of the pharaoh ant M. pharaonis. We'd also love live M. pharaonis samples collected anywhere. Happy to pay shipping/collecting costs! Please DM me or Sachin Suresh

I should have added: we'd also really love ethanol-preserved and/or live samples of M. minimum group species, e.g., M. cyaneum, M. ebeninum, M. emarginatum, M. inquilinum, M. minimum, M. talbotae, M. trageri, M. viride!

Some folks had been asking if terrestrial isopods exhibit maternal care and whether they lay eggs or give birth to young so here's a photo thread on their reproduction process. After mating, the female's eggs are produced and stored in her marsupium for about a month. [1/7]

Calyptomyrmex sp. looking to start her new colony. The flattened setae look like sesame seeds. These are really tiny ants!

New paper from Tim Linksvayer lab out on Nature Communications. Congratulations to Chao Tong and all the co-authors involved! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Visiting India means I get to see these amazing ants (especially Poneroids!) Here are a few terrible images of some species I bumped into.

ハンミョウアリが我が家に来てから1年が経った。丈夫でとても安定したコロニーだと感じる。

One of my favorites from False Knees.

Cute interaction between Temnothorax minutissimus and a Temnothorax americanus worker.

Just two Disco queens sharing secrets. These are the cutest ants ever!! 😍😍😍

Thank you for all the mentoring Arjuna Rajakumar, PhD! This endeavor wouldn't be possible without you.

Do you think Haplodiploidy drives the evolution of Eusociality in insects? Come see my talk on Sunday (06/25) at Aztec/140! Evolution Meetings

A new paper claiming a simple model of genetics fit a range of social traits. It’s interesting data, but it’s a massive reach to say the model fit reflects genetic effects, as there’s no control for environment here. 1/n

Anyone else completely glued to the Smithsonian Zoo naked mole-rat regicide drama?

Aristotle was the first to notice honeybees dancing. In 1927 Karl von Frisch decoded the waggle. How it works was "explained" by MV Srinivasan AM FRS in the 1990s. Except Laura Luebbert, PhD found his papers are junk. A 🧵 about her discovery & our report: arxiv.org/abs/2405.12998 1/