Insects usually care for their own young, but sometimes they also help other species. This #RSOS study found that yellow meadow #ants protect the eggs of root aphids in their nests during winter. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @tparmentier.bsky.social @wybouw.bsky.social
Our study on complex cryptic co-infections of Spiroplasma in European Myrmica ants is now published with @tparmentier.bsky.social @emmavanreempts.bsky.social @selfishmeme.bsky.social Tessa, Wouter and Diego doi.org/10.1111/mec.... .
Royal Society Publishing
Many bacterial taxa evolved facultative symbiotic associations with insects and spread through host populations by horizontal and maternal transmission. Co-infection at the individual host level may ...
Ant-myrmecophile interaction: Formica sanguinea and the food begging rove beetle Dinarda dentata
Sampling huge red wood ant mounds in the Belgian Ardennes
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Formica polyctena, probably hundreds of queens in a mound
Ontdek alles rond hoe detectiehonden kunnen worden ingezet om rode bosmierkoepels op te sporen en te monitoren, geen aprilgrap :). Ik zal hier ook een praatje doen over mierengasten bij bosmieren
