Our PhD student Max Bolder @boldest-ant.bsky.social published a very fascinating story about the vampire #ants Stigmatomma pallipes. Queens may look alike but they differ in behavior and gene expression. Do you want to know more? Check below! 🐜
Social Insects Lab - JGU Mainz
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!
doi.org
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...
