New short communication! 📄
Gomes et al. document the first observation of O. banana fire bee workers tending treehopper A. reticulatum aggregations on Schinus molle🍯
🔗 https://t.co/68uzTLMMtu
#SocialInsects#NeotropicalEcology#HoneydewHarvesting#Meliponini
Nos despertamos con una noticia desoladora: las inundaciones de la #DANA han impactado gravemente Valencia. El cambio climático provoca que cada vez haya más fenómenos climáticos extremos: si antes pasaban cada 100 años, ahora pasarán cada 50 o menos. ¿Qué podemos hacer? Hilo:
Come and see me talking about the inner lives of ants, bees, and wasps this Thursday at 12:00 at CreafTalks (also online): "Cooperation, Conflicts, and Emerging Traits in Social Insects". 🐜🐝 @CREAF_ecologia 👉 https://t.co/fkwc7wb0H3
Last project of "Freshwater ecosistems" sent to be evaluated. We did a comparison of macroinvertebrate functional spaces between lotic and lentic habitats, and did several functional diversity estimations. It was for sure a fascinating project! 🪲🪱
#ecosistemesfluvials
Really proud of my MSc student Patricia González @patris013 for winning the best presentation at the IX Biojornades @uabbiociencies! 🌟 She is doing an impressive study on the ecological dynamics of Mediterranean ant communities. 🐜🌿
We just started "Freshwater ecosystems", a new subject in the Biodiversity master's program. We've been identifying the aquatic macroinvertebrates we sampled during the field trip 🪲🪱🐚
#ecosistemesfluvials
In this two videos you can see a colony of harvester ants of the species #Messor#barbarus carefully gathering elm seeds of the #Ulmus#minor tree. Found yesterday while walking through the UAB campus with @patris013
New paper out in @ScienceMagazine
We report an extraordinary reproductive system in the yellow crazy ant. 🐜
Males of this species are all chimeras: they carry maternal and paternal genomes in different cells of their body. https://t.co/1DNQgrmJ4T