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Lily Khadempour @khadlily.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Our new paper and associated blog post were published today! And @biancanogr.bsky.social and @diemq.bsky.social finally made bsky accounts so I could tag them. This is Bianca's paper from our lab and DiemQuynh's first ever. I'm so happy to have this review out finally!

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Khadempour Lab @khadlab.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A new paper, "Honeypots: a review of repletism across the ants" from our lab was published today, with grad student Bianca Nogueira as first author, and co-authors DiemQuynh Nguyen, @adriatica.bsky.social, and @haidomyrmex.bsky.social. It was a labor of love! doi.org/10.25849/myr... 🧵

Three ants with giant gasters are next to each other. The one on the left has a creamy and opaque gaster, the middle one has a dark amber and transluscent gaster, and the third is a lighter honey-colored transluscent gaster. All three ants are Mymecocystus mexicanus repletes from the same colony. The colors are due to the different fluids that they are storing in their crops. Because their crops and gasters are so distended, it's possible to see the crop contents.

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