Have you ever wished you were a small insect, just so you could sleep in a flower? Now you do ;) #sleep #bee #flower
Le site pour le colloque 2025 de l'Union Internationale pour l'Etude des Insectes Sociaux est en ligne : iussi-sf-2025.sciencesconf.org
Au plaisir de vous retrouver à Condorcet du 18 au 20 juin !! 😃
Appel à candidature 2026 : Prix Jeunes Talents France L'Oréal-UNESCO Pour les Femmes et la Sciences. Toutes les infos ici: buff.ly/C6zqKSE date limite 23 mars 2026
Excited to have our new paper published in Insectes Sociaux! Lasius niger ants discovering a pre-existing trail do not modify their trail-following behaviour with distance from the nest or motivation. The straightness of their trajectories was affected by how far they had walked before though! 🐜
📣 1 WEEK TO GO! 🐜
Leaf-cutting ants don’t just build nests; they build climate-controlled cities.
🎥 Watch the teaser for Prof. Flavio Roces’ talk on their environmental adaptations.
🗓️Tuesday 29 July – 14:00 GMT
📍Live on YouTube : www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORc...
Social insect and cognition postdocs, check these positions in Berlin, with super nice supervisor Tomer! :)
Our paper with @curiousant.bsky.social on
strategic pheromone deposition in ants
was selected as the @insectessociaux.bsky.social paper of the year 2024!
Insectes Sociaux is probably my favourite journal, so this is especially delightful.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Look at this 'roll into a package ball' behaviour by some Formica being carried between 2 of their nests. I love spring 😎
We have not yet introduced #AnimalTA to the Bluesky community, but it’s a free and user-friendly tool for animal behavior research! 🕷️🔬 See here how it’s used to study spiderlings dispersal in our experiments. Have questions? Feel free to contact us! #Science #Spiders 🧪
🚨New paper🐜 For the same duration of stimulus, Lasius niger ants learn better from a positive (sugar water) than a negative (falling into water) experience. For appetitive side learning, a single trial leads to a memory of a couple of hours.
#ProcB
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/....
Romain Honorio
Laure-Anne Poissonnier
Laure-Anne Poissonnier
Laure-Anne Poissonnier
Laure-Anne Poissonnier
Laure-Anne Poissonnier
SF2A
Animal Behaviour Live
Tomer J. Czaczkes
AnimalTA
New research article! 📰
Poissonnier (curiousant.bsky.social),
tomerczaczkes.bsky.social et al. show that workers follow pheromone trails with fidelity, regardless of their foraging context 🐜
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s000...
#SocialInsects #AntForaging #ChemicalCommunication #AntBehavior #Pheromones
Insects have been models of associative learning and its underlying memory mechanisms.
Research on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and the honeybee Apis mellifera yielded deep insights into the ...
