If you like good people, want to live in excellent SE PA, and ❤️ PUIs… 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Press release out today on our new paper detailing the convergent origins of obligate ant and termite eating in mammals!

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...

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.

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

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...

👀🦋🐝🐞🐜🦗🪲🕷️Ento-Education Job alert!!👀

🐜🐜🐜Fans of Myrmicinae! New paper in Syst Biol in collaboration with C. Rabeling🐜🐜🐜 doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

Also found this old half a hickory nut, inhabited by an entire colony of teeny tiny ants (Temnothorax?? your guesses welcome)

Re-upping if for whatever reason you want to find ways to fight for democracy and against tyrants and billionaires... 👇👇👇

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

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

Not entirely sure what's going on here, but I APPROVE 🐜🐜

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

🚨 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.

Wow! Cool opportunity!

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.

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.

🐜🐜🐜 Myrmecologists! Do not be fooled by this sneaky title!

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) 🐙🌿

🐜🐜🐜 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

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

🚨 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...

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!!

Ventral view, with my (large) hand for scale. Zoom in to see her mouthparts…they’re all there 🔬

@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...

One of the most remarkable pieces of sciart 🧪 that I have seen in a long while. #entomology #myrmecology #insects #art #sculpture

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.

Also, curator position for Hymenoptera at same institution- application deadline 15 Feb 2025 - snsb.de/kurator-ento...

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

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...

Folks - some more of us little entomological curators 🪰🦟😎🐜🪲🐛🐌🐝🐞🦗

2 New #PhD positions in my institution to study #biodiversity and interactions #ants and #beetles in the tropics!

🐜🐜🐜 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! 🐜🐜🐜

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 starter pack for myrmecologists and our allies 🩵🐜🩷 go.bsky.app/zo95qR