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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🐜 The AIM collaborates on an exhibition about invasive species in Andalusia 🏛️ The Iberian Myrmecology Association is collaborating in the exhibition “Invasive Species: The Case of Andalusia”, an initiative that highlights the impact of invasive alien species on Andalusian biodiversity.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🐜 Exotic ants in the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park 📄 Our members Joaquín L. Reyes-López and Paco Alarcón have published a new paper on the presence of non-native ants in San José, within the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park (Almería).

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J. Manuel Vidal-Cordero (Mirmeco_Cosas) @jmvidalcordero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🐜 ¡Hormigas S.A. ya está aquí! Porque ell@s también tienen derecho a conocer este alucinANTe mundo. 📚 Disponible en librerías o directamente en la web de Zahorí Books. #hormigas #naturaleza #cienciasdelanaturaleza #zahoribooks

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A parasitic Apocephalus ant-decapitating fly closes in on her target, a Camponotus chromaiodes carpenter ant. Sand Ridge State Forest, Illinois.

Macro photo of a large black and red ant, slightly backlight, standing with antennae raised as a small black and yellow striped fly approaches from the right.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dolichoderus mariae odorous ants, Wisconsin.

Macro photo of two small, shiny red ants with black gasters standing facing each other on a tree branch, against a blue sky background.

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Gema Trigos-Peral @trigos-peral.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📢Don't miss it! 📚New Special issue from Fragmenta Faunística dedicated to Prof. Wojciech Czechowski! 👥 Science and friendship - Outstanding! #science #friendship #ants #biodiversity #conservation #Fragmenta_faunistica

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Gema Trigos-Peral @trigos-peral.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

📢Thinking about sharing your social insect science? The next Central European IUSSI meeting @ceiussi.bsky.social is at @mizpas.bsky.social in Warsaw! 🇵🇱 Even if you can't ensure attendance, we’d love to hear your interests and preferences. 📝 Fill out our questionnaire! forms.gle/qqjbAc9RuMkj...

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📄 Our AIM partners, Matvey Logachev and Paco Alarcón, participated in a study that revealed an increase in the known presence of Messor erwini in the provinces of Córdoba and Málaga, as well as providing new records in Granada.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🍄 New findings on the fungus Myrmicinosporidium durum in the Iberian Peninsula 📄 Our partners Amonio David Cuesta-Segura and Fede García present a new study that expands our knowledge of the distribution and hosts of the endoparasitic fungus Myrmicinosporidium durum in the Iberian Peninsula. 1/4

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🐜 A new desert ant species has been described! 📄 Our members Fede García, Amonio David Cuesta-Segura and Xavier Espadaler describe Cataglyphis mater, a new species endemic to the Iberian Peninsula belonging to the Cataglyphis cursor group. 👇1/4

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🗺️ A new parasitic species of the genus Plagiolepis! 📄 Our members Fede García, Amonio David Cuesta-Segura and Xavier Espadaler present a review of the socially parasitic ants of the genus Plagiolepis occurring in the Iberian Peninsula. 👇1/5

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A Linepithema iniquum ant nest in a yellowed leaf sheath in the El Yunque rain forest, Puerto Rico.

Macro photo of a plump queen ant and a couple dozen translucent yellow worker ants in a yellow leaf, backlit.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Southern fire ants, Solenopsis xyloni, carrying a pebble from an excavation project deeper in the nest. West Texas. I often think of this species as a western desert ant, but it used to be found coast to coast and was extirpated in the east by the red imported fire ants.

Macro photo in portait orientation of two shiny, almost glasslike orange ants pulling a stone larger than their heads out of a hole in the ground.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

🐜 Eucalyptus trees and ants: an unexpected relationship 📄 Our members Joaquín L. Reyes-López and Francisco Jiménez-Carmona have just published a new study in the journal Sustainability analyzing the impact of Eucalyptus camaldulensis stands on ant communities in the Tabernas Desert 👇1/7

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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Los días 8, 9 y 10 de julio de 2026, el @iicg-urjc.bsky.social (@urjc.bsky.social), en el campus de Móstoles, acogió la XX edición de Taxomara, el Congreso Ibérico de Mirmecología organizado por la Asociación Ibérica de Mirmecología @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social. 👇

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🌾 Founding success in harvester ants 📄 A new study, with the collaboration of our members Ahmed Taheri and Joaquín L. Reyes-López, examines how the initial body mass of Messor barbarus queens and the weight they lose during colony founding influence their survival and worker production. 👇1/5

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🐜 New ant records for Oman 📄 Members Matvey Logachev and Paco Alarcón have contributed to a new study that expands our knowledge of the ant fauna of the Arabian Peninsula.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🏝️ New insights into the non-native ants of the Canary Islands! 📄 Our members Amonio David Cuesta-Segura and Xavier Espadaler have published an updated review of the non-native ants of the Canary Islands.

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J. Manuel Vidal-Cordero (Mirmeco_Cosas) @jmvidalcordero.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

🐜 Hoy vengo a hablaros de hormigas y de lo frecuente que es ver en Doñana por estas fechas a las obreras de Cataglyphis tartessica y Aphaenogaster senilis transportando pétalos de Halimium halimifolium hacia sus hormigueros. 🧵1/2

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ADIBECO @adibeco.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Inolvidable experiencia en el XX Congreso Ibérico de Mirmecología (Taxomara 26) con una marcada representación de la Universidad de León. Estamos muy orgullosos de la participación de nuestras estudiantes. Excelente organización. ¡Nos vemos en la próxima edición! @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

🐜 Taxomara 2026 continues in Madrid 👇1/5 📚 Over the past few days, we’ve enjoyed a fantastic programme of oral presentations and poster sessions, sharing projects, results and experiences with fellow enthusiasts of myrmecology.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

⁉️ Did you know…? The genus Camponotus houses the bulkiest ants in Europe, true giants of our myrmecofauna whose nuptial flights follow a very precise natural order linked to the summer. 👇1/6

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🐜 Ant eyes can reveal their identity too! 🧵1/5 📄 A new study led by our member Joaquín L. Reyes-López shows that ant eyes can provide key clues for distinguishing cryptic species within the Temnothorax tuberum group.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🧬 A new genetic atlas for Europe’s ants 📄 Members Fede García, Kiko Gómez, José María Gómez y Alberto Tinaut have contributed to an ambitious study presenting the most comprehensive DNA barcode library ever assembled for European ants.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Taxonomist: Eureka! I have discovered a small orange ant that is very timid and is only 3mm long and never comes above ground. Regular person: That's great! What will you name it? Taxonomist:

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Tyrannomyrmex rex is a species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae native to Malaysia and Singapore. For the first time in a decade, in 2017, the extremely rare ant was seen alive, living in the dirt o...

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

🐜 Record Biodiversity in Aracena! 📄 A new study led by researchers and members of the AIM (Association of Molecular Insects) Soledad Carpintero, Francisco Jiménez-Carmona, and Joaquín L. Reyes-López updates the myrmecofauna of the Sierra de Aracena and Picos de Aroche Natural Park (Huelva).

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🐜 Investigating African leaf-litter ants 📄 Our members Kiko Gómez and Daniel Sánchez-García have contributed to a fascinating new study on African ant fauna, published in the journal African Invertebrates 👇

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🗺️ Updated checklist of exotic ants in the Iberian Peninsula 📄 Members Javier Arcos, Diego López-Collar and Matvey Logachev have contributed to a new study compiling and updating all available information on introduced ants in the Iberian Peninsula up to 2025.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

🐜 New Bachelor's Thesis: The desert ant 🎓 Our member F. Javier López Ballesta, a graduate in Environmental Sciences from the University of Murcia, has presented his Bachelor's Thesis titled "Autoecology and nest founding strategies in the desert ant, Cataglyphis iberica".

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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

📢Si aún no te has inscrito ¿a qué esperas? 🐜El @iicg-urjc.bsky.social @urjc.bsky.social acogerá el XX Congreso Ibérico de Mirmecología de la @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social 👇

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

🐜 The XX Iberian Myrmecology Congress – TAXOMARA 2026 is fast approaching in Móstoles! 🏛️ Organised by the AIM and Rey Juan Carlos University. 📝 Make a note of these IMPORTANT DATES so you don't miss a thing:

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🌍 A call for applications has been opened for a PhD position at Maynooth University (Co. Kildare, Ireland), focusing on a fascinating and threatened species.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🐜 Las hormigas en la tele: divulgación en Canal Málaga 📺 Nuestro socio @jmvidalcordero.bsky.social ha participado en el programa "El porqué de las cosas" de Canal Málaga presentado por Adolfo Arjona, un espacio dedicado a acercar la ciencia al público general.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🐜 The Lasius Genus in Galicia 📄 Our partner Fede García presents an updated review of ants of the genus Lasius in Galicia, providing new records and expanding our knowledge of their distribution in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Her nest disturbed by the photographer, a Solenopsis thief ant worker exudes a droplet of venom on her stinger and waves it in the air. This behavior is known as "gaster-flagging". Paraná, Brazil.

Macro photo of a small shiny brown ant standing on a stick against a pure black background, head down and abdomen straight up, a droplet of clear liquid larger than her own eye at the tip of her stinger.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Ten points if you can figure out what's going on here. (Ecuador)

Macro photo of what appears to be several silvery-black arthropod body segments and a bunch of random spines and legs, standing on a green monocot leaf.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🌍 A call for applications has been opened for a PhD position at Maynooth University (Co. Kildare, Ireland), focusing on a fascinating and threatened species.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

🐜 Mutualism in Tropical Dry Forest Regeneration 📄 A new study analyzes how interactions between ants and plants with extrafloral nectaries influence protection against herbivores during ecological succession in dry forests of the Caatinga. Our partner Xavier Arnan participated in the research.

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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

¿Has visto las noticias? El IICG @urjc.bsky.social acogerá el XX Congreso Ibérico de Mirmecología de la @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social 👉https://iicg-urjc.es/el-iicg-urjc-acogera-el-xx-congreso-iberico-de-mirmecologia-taxomara-2026/ ¡Inscríbete ahora!

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

🪲 Myrmecophilous beetles of the genus Claviger in the Iberian Peninsula 📄 Members Fede García García and Antonio Cuesta-Segura present a new study that delves into the knowledge of the curious beetles of the genus Claviger, which are closely linked to ant societies.

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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

📢 ¡TAXOMARA 2026: REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! 🌍 The XX Iberian Congress of Myrmecology will be held at the Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social of the @urjc.bsky.social (Móstoles, Madrid) from July 8th to 10th, 2026.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

🌾 Agriculture and ant biodiversity in Morocco 📄 Members Joaquín Reyes-López and Ahmed Taheri have collaborated on a new study analysing how different agricultural systems influence ant diversity in central Morocco.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

📢 ¡TAXOMARA 2026: REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! 🌍 It's official! Registration is now open for the XX Iberian Congress of Myrmecology, which will be held at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Móstoles Campus, Madrid) from July 8th to 10th, 2026.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

🐜 The Iberian Association of Myrmecology (AIM) at BioBlitz UPO 2026: Myrmecological Outreach Throughout the Day

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

🐜 The new volume of our Iberomyrmex magazine is now available! 📄 You can now check out the latest issue of Iberomyrmex 2025, the official bulletin of the Iberian Association of Myrmecology, on our website.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🐜 Las hormigas que nos rodean: ciencia que sigue sorprendiendo y apasionando. 🎙️Nuestro socio @jmvidalcordero.bsky.social participó en “Andalucía es Naturaleza”, de Radio Andalucía, acercando al público la fascinante diversidad del mundo de las hormigas.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

🔬 Ants in 3D: towards a new era of myrmecology Our members Kiko Gómez and Fede García contributed as collaborators to a paper published in Nature Methods presenting “Antscan”, a global initiative to digitise ant biodiversity using advanced imaging techniques.

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Mattia Menchetti @mattiamenchetti.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The DNA barcode reference library for European ants is out! 🐜🧬 doi.org/10.1111/1755... Checklist of 650 species, ~78% covered 🧬, +6,500 COI 🧬, plus species genetic maps & trees, see Supp. Inf. "Atlas" tinyurl.com/antdnaeuatlas A framework for species discovery, biosurveillance, and phylogeography!

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🔬 Ants returns to Ciencia en el Barrio 🎤 Our member @jmvidalcordero.bsky.social is once again taking part in Ciencia en el Barrio, bringing the fascinating world of ants closer to the general public through science communication.

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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

🐜 Tracking Wasmannia auropunctata: the role of citizen science 📄 Our members Javi Arcos and Juan Pascual-Gil have contributed to a study focused on Wasmannia auropunctata... 🧵 1/7

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