Check out our latest publication @PNAS, in which we calculate the number of #ants on Earth. pnas.org/doi/full/10.10… Patrick Schultheiss, Runxi WANG 王润玺, Mark Wong, @MyrmecoFrank, Benoit Guénard

Jan Buellesbach Jan Buellesbach presents his exciting research on chemical communication in social insects at the weekly Seminar Series #ants #termites #ChemEcol Zoology III Würzburg Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg

We are seeking a PhD student interested in working at the intersection of science and practice. In this exciting project, we assess the use of the endophytic fungi Epichloë for plant protection in grasslands🌱& toxic effects on insects 🦗& livestock 🐮 Apply 9th Nov Jochen Krauss

Check out my new paper on #ant communities in the subtropics: rainfall matters for composition, their #functional #traits and #biodiversity link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Are you interested in studying pollinators 🐝🌼in agricultural systems & assess ways to protect them? Do you love fieldwork & working at the intersection between science and practice? Then Zoology III Würzburg is looking for you! Join our team as PhD researcher. Deadline 05/02/2023

Exciting insights into mind-boggling numbers and how we can grasp them

Check out this amazing video by Wren Weichman Wren on our recent global ant abundance paper pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107… 20 Quadrillion Ants! Wren is THE specialist on visualising scales and the unimaginable. youtube.com/watch?v=OPoMww…

New fully funded PhD project available. We're interested in whether silicon accumulation can help plants resist attack by herbivorous pests while they also experience abiotic stress. Fantastic opportunity to collaborate with Sue Hartley. #siliceousplants

Absolutely adorable 😍

Exciting new paper on the global biomass of wild mammals pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…, put into context in this weeks’ Science News science.org/doi/epdf/10.11… by Elizabeth Pennisi Elizabeth Pennisi

Stunning video!

Get ready for the exciting ant session at the #tropical #ecology conference #gtoe23

New paper on wound care in ants! Here we show that nestmates treat infected wounds more than sterile ones and that they use a battery of antimicrobial compounds to do so! This was a massive interdisciplinary project so let me tease it apart: (1/9) rdcu.be/duJDN

A poney ant (Rhytidoponera sp.) carrying an Acacia seed with an elaiosome (the yellow part). Ants will feed on the elaiosome then discard the seed near their nest. The Acacia benefits has it gets its seeds dispersed. This mutualistic relationship is called myrmecochory. NT🇦🇺 2023

I am excited to share our new publication on #ants #traits: we developed a new method to exclude ants by body size in the field. Now we can quantify their ecological contributions by body size groups. Taylor Bogar; Benoit Guenard; photo François Brassard; sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New paper on heat wave effects on bumblebees. Heat stress can reduce their sense of smell by up to 80%, and they don't even recover after 1 day. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Check out the Science News piece by Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Rodrigo Pérez Ortega science.org/content/articl….

Congratulations!

Congratulations Mark!

New PhD positions in tropical insect ecology at our institute - highly recommended.

Listen here to the Bee's Knees Podcast: I was invited to talk about the impacts of heat waves on bumblebees in the Episode the 'Scent of Survival' thebeesknees.website/bumblebees-hea…