Not all slave-makers are equally adept at enslaving other ants. Facultative slave-makers like Formica subnuda are commonly found without slaves in their colonies. The slaves, if present ...

For example, the Allegheny mound ant (Formica exsectoides), native to eastern North America, has a distinctive appearance ...

To study immune priming in invertebrates, Swiss and Panamanian researchers chose two that have plenty of time to build immunity: Lasius niger (above) and Formica selysi ant queens, which may live ...

a defense chemical released by Formica ants; and (Z)-9-hexadecenal, the ant aggregation pheromone they’d used in the bee study. The birds avoided feeders that smelled of the latter two, but not those ...

sanguinea group, with a worker of its neogagates group host species, Formica vinculans; (D) the highly modified worker of Polyergus mexicanus, representing the obligately dulotic formicine ants in ...

In project SpecIAnt we study speciation and hybridization using wood ants as a model system. We focus on the recently diverged Formica rufa group wood ants, many of which occur in Southern Finland ...