Nesting weaver ants combine into chains to pull leaves together. Stewardson, Carlesso, et al. show that, unlike humans, weaver ant teams are superefficient: individual force output grows alongside tea...

Summer time means wasps visiting picnics! Sometimes they go for protein (e.g. ham) other times it's sugar (e.g. jam). Learning about the type of food wasps are after tells us about their life-cycle an...

The Education and Outreach Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Small Grants for Local and Regional Outreach . These grants provide funding for public lectures,…

In this self-paced course, you will explore the connections between gender and biodiversity and learn practical tools to develop gender-responsive approaches and policies for Indigenous Peoples and local communities, aligning with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

Upcoming conference by Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)

Ants have been proposed as good models to study ageing and the effects of extrinsic mortality because of their long lifespans and plasticity of ageing within species. We discuss how age-dependent ext...

Charles Henry Turner conducted trailblazing research on the cognitive traits of bees, spiders and more

Bey et al. show that ants that are attacked by other ants learn the recognition cues of their attackers. This leads to increased aggression against all ants from the attacker’s colony that share the same cues. Ants thus associatively learn the recognition cues of their attackers to form an “enemy template” that improves nestmate recognition.