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thomnelson.bsky.social @thomnelson.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
If you like good people, want to live in excellent SE PA, and ❤️ PUIs… 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Press release out today on our new paper detailing the convergent origins of obligate ant and termite eating in mammals!
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Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds
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Jess Awad @parasitoidrex.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The @entsocamerica.bsky.social International Symposium is now available to watch on demand! We've also got a fun trivia quiz about the program, with a special prize for the winner! entsoc.org/membership/b...
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2025 International Branch Virtual Symposium
April 7-9, 2025 Thank you for joining us this year! All content is now available on-demand. View on-demand here
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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Today I found a few Haeterius clown beetles under a rock with a Formica ant colony. These beetles are “ant guests” / myrmecophiles, and the ants often feed them. The beetles are tiny though, even compared to the ants. Also check out the springtails. Thanks to Joe Parker for the 🪲 ID. Woodstock, NY.
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Roberto A. Keller @rkellerp.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Taxonomy fail: yes, Diacamma ants (pictured) occur in Asia's tropical regions, but they are not related to Colobopsis exploding ants, apart of also happening to be ants. #taxonomyFail
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Southeast Asia’s Exploding Ant Dies So Its Colony Can Live — A Biologist Explains
Meet the exploding ant, a tiny warrior hidden deep in the forests of Borneo. Their astonishing act of self-destruction unleashes a toxic blast, stopping predators in their tracks and redefining the tr...
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Melvin Opolka @melvinopolka.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Happy to see that a small article Elia Nalini (from @euracalpenv.bsky.social ) and I wrote for the myrmecological news blog is now finally published! 🐜 We present our @monitant.bsky.social project and also our Citizen Science approach. 🔎 blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2025/04/09/m...
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MonitAnt: European-level monitoring strategy for mound-building Formica ants
Formica rufa workers engaged in food sharing (trophallaxis) (© Elia Nalini) In the popular imagination, when we think about environmentally impactful ants, the first images that come to mind are of...
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Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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Antsy Hat Tester!
Hello potential testers! This is the newest and quickest addition to my antsy clothing collection- a worsted weight cap in 3 different adult sizes. It features a thick folded brim, and 6-7 ant repeats...
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aluckymyrmex.bsky.social @aluckymyrmex.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
👀🦋🐝🐞🐜🦗🪲🕷️Ento-Education Job alert!!👀
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Matthew Prebus @mprebus.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🐜🐜🐜Fans of Myrmicinae! New paper in Syst Biol in collaboration with C. Rabeling🐜🐜🐜 doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
A chronogram of the ant tribe Myrmicini, showing the disparity of divergence dates between alternate placements of the fossil species †Manica andrannae
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Also found this old half a hickory nut, inhabited by an entire colony of teeny tiny ants (Temnothorax?? your guesses welcome)
What it says in the post: old half a hickory nut, inhabited by a colony of teensy black ants and their larvae/pupae
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Re-upping if for whatever reason you want to find ways to fight for democracy and against tyrants and billionaires... 👇👇👇
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cmtribull.bsky.social @cmtribull.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Hey friends! The Formal and Informal Teaching (FIT) pilot section of the Entomological Society of America is now live! Give them a follow before they start posting some neat stuff (like job opps...) @fitentsocamerica.bsky.social
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Théotime Colin @theotimecolin.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
We don't know much about these odd-looking Zasphinctus ants, except they seem to raid other ant nests, steal their larvae and eat them... Their narrow elongated bodies probably help them enter small galleries. #ants #myrmecology non #armyants #fourmis #science
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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Not entirely sure what's going on here, but I APPROVE 🐜🐜
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Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Calling disabled entomologists! Planning a symposium in November & we have room for more speakers if anyone would like to share their journey. Comment or DM me for more information! #entosky #entomology @entsocamerica.bsky.social
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a group of people with disabilities holding signs that say disability rights are civil rights
ALT: a group of people with disabilities holding signs that say disability rights are civil rights
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Cierra @skeetercierra.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🚨 Calling Entomology Society of America Early Career Professionals🚨 If you have published a paper recently or have good news to share, please send it my way. We would love to feature it in our quarterly ECP newsletter! Submissions will be accepted until 3/17.
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aluckymyrmex.bsky.social @aluckymyrmex.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Wow! Cool opportunity!
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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I recently posted a picture of a large Dorylus molestus army ant worker from Mount Kenya. Here is the same ant again, but this time in comparison to its smaller sisters. These ants are incredibly polymorphic, and the different worker types take on different tasks in the colony.
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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A bristletail, Trichatelura manni, against the backdrop of its Eciton burchellii army ant host workers during a colony emigration at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica.
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aluckymyrmex.bsky.social @aluckymyrmex.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
🐜🐜🐜 Myrmecologists! Do not be fooled by this sneaky title!
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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
An ant tends to a Lycaenid butterfly caterpillar as it nibbles a lupine. (The caterpillar's head is inside the flower.) This ant stayed with the caterpillar for at least fifteen minutes, tapping it with its antennae and hoping the caterpillar would secrete a sugary honeydew droplet. (Montana) 🐙🌿
A macro photo looking down on an ant next to a smaller caterpillar on a purple flower. The ant has a black head and abdomen and a red thorax, and the caterpillar is gray. The caterpillar's head is not visible, because it is inside the flower, having chewed a hole in it. These caterpillars can exude a sugary liquid, which this ant is hoping for.
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aluckymyrmex.bsky.social @aluckymyrmex.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🐜🐜🐜 Invasive Ant Boot Camp registration is now open! Join us in Gainesville, FL May 7-9, 2025, to learn to spot the most ants with the worst reputations. 🐜🐜🐜www.invasiveantbootcamp.org
Flyer advertising invasive ant boot camp in Gainesville, FL, on May 7-9, 2025. More information about the workshop at www.invasiveantbootcamp.org.
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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Arthropod Photo of the Week: February 26, 2025 Spider ants attack pony ant Leptomyrmex sp./Rhytidoponera sp. Hymenoptera: Formicidae By François Brassard, Madang, Papua New Guinea #arthropodPOTW
A group of reddish ants are attacking a single black ant on a brown surface. The ants are gathered around the black ant, with some holding onto its legs. There are holes in the surface, suggesting it's organic material such as a dried leaf.
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Arthur Matte @arthurmatte.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 🐜 How did ants evolve their highly specialized queens and workers? With @adriatica.bsky.social, we reveal a key evolutionary innovation: adult control over larval feeding unlocked extreme caste dimorphism and complex societies. 🧵👇 🔗 Read in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Peter Mulhair @petermulhair.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Funding for systematics/taxonomy is unfortunately not common - the LinneSys grant is a great opportunity to get support for field work/consumables/sequencing/monographs and more for projects in this area. Joint funded by the @linneansociety.bsky.social and @systassn.bsky.social. Deadline soon!!
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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 05/02/2025
Ventral view, with my (large) hand for scale. Zoom in to see her mouthparts…they’re all there 🔬
ventral view of a large bronze ant laying on its back in my open hand against a backdrop of a wooden table. The underside of the animal is highly detailed, including its mouthparts (maxillary and labial palps, labrum, glossa). #sciart #invertebrate
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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
@entsocamerica.bsky.social is collecting stories about how various actions taken by the federal government recently are impacting ESA members and hindering entomological research. You do need to be an ESA member to participate. app.smartsheet.com/b/form/7a1ed...
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Smartsheet Forms
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
One of the most remarkable pieces of sciart 🧪 that I have seen in a long while. #entomology #myrmecology #insects #art #sculpture
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
If you were to learn how to identify just one group of ants, I'd recommend the genus Camponotus, which includes carpenter ants even though most species are soil-nesting. These ants are abundant on every continent and fairly recognizeable.
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Camponotus - Alex Wild
is abundant and diverse nearly everywhere in the world. This ubiquitous formicine genus contains our familiar carpenter ants, as well as some tropical weaver ants and desert honeypot ants.
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Torsten Dikow @tdikow.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Also, curator position for Hymenoptera at same institution- application deadline 15 Feb 2025 - snsb.de/kurator-ento...
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SNSB – Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns » Kurator für Entomologie – Hymenoptera(w/m/d) – Zoologische Staatssammlung
Eine weitere WordPress-Website
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Entomological Collections Network @entcollnet.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
We’ve made a starter pack, to help you find people actively working with insect collections. Get in touch if you’d like to be added. 🦋 Entomological Collections Crew go.bsky.app/C5VpWiw
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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Starter packs
BIOLOGY General Science community https://go.bsky.app/HVYAMEA Research Institutions in Life Sciences https://go.bsky.app/LxXpcvJ LGBTQIA+ in STEM https://go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf LGBTQIA+ in STEM 2 h...
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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Folks - some more of us little entomological curators 🪰🦟😎🐜🪲🐛🐌🐝🐞🦗
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Jing @everyjing.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
2 New #PhD positions in my institution to study #biodiversity and interactions #ants and #beetles in the tropics!
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aluckymyrmex.bsky.social @aluckymyrmex.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
🐜🐜🐜 So many ant folks here! Keep sharing your best ant pics, factoids, and papers. The Lucky Lab crew just wrapped up EntSoc24 - great job, everyone! 🐜🐜🐜
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Ant/insect/academic friends! You may soon receive this invitation to guest edit an issue for the journal Insects. A reminder that this publisher (MDPI) is essentially predatory and relies on recruiting folks like us to start a kind of multi-level marketing chain. Just say no!
A screenshot of an email from the journal Insects that says: We invite you to join us as a Guest Editor for Insects to establish a Special 
Issue. Our suggested topic is “Biodiversity, Phylogeny and Evolution of 
Ants”. You may modify the title to suit your interests and set the 
submission deadline according to your schedule.
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Jane Waters 🏳️‍⚧️🐜🇵🇸 @lovetheants.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
A starter pack for myrmecologists and our allies 🩵🐜🩷 go.bsky.app/zo95qR
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