Forgot to add my favourite image from this study, featuring two queens that may look similar but are very different!
Max Bolder
When a small side project about the observation of "queens" going outside the artificial nest turns into a full story featuring the elusive vampire ant Stigmatomma pallipes: doi.org/10.1111/mec....
Very grateful to have one of my PhD chapters published. More to come!
Insect societies show a reproductive division of labor between egg-laying queens and workers that fulfil all non-reproductive tasks. Polygyny, the coexistence of several queens in a colony, has evolv...
