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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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Interview with a social insect scientist: Stefano Cavallo
Stefano is a biologist specializing in animal behavior and currently works as a research fellow in behavioral ecology at the University of Florence. In this interview, he recalls moment he realized...
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Digging on fast-forward: How heat shapes ant architecture
In this blog post, the authors of the Insectes Sociaux article title “High environmental temperatures put nest excavation by ants on fast forward: they dig the same nests, faster” (Rathery et al....
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Pesticides damage bee parenting — and their larvae pay the price
By Leeah Richardson Leeah is a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin with a particular interest in insect behavior and anthropogenic stressors. In this blog, she explains how, although...
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Insect architects: How termites, ants, and bees build without blueprints
by Paige Caine Paige Caine is a PhD student working in Dr. Michael Goodisman’s lab at Georgia Tech. She studies fire ants and yellowjacket wasps. In this blog, she explains how social insects, such as...
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At what point does a male social wasp leave his natal nest to reproduce?
By Daniela Torres Garcia In this blog, Daniela Torres Garcia, from the University of São Paulo, describe how she discovered that the number of females in a Mischocyttarus cerberus wasp nest influences...
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Sunning clusters, the remarkable phenomenon in red wood ants: What causes...
By Peter Chanas Peter recently completed his Ph.D. at Charles University in Prague. During his doctoral study, he focused on the formation of sunning clusters, the phenomenon in red wood ants as a...
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What makes a queen successful?
By Luisa M. Jaimes-Nino Luisa is a researcher at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She specializes in studying the life-history traits of ants, their senescence, and the genetic and non-genetic...
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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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