The focus of bee neuroscience has for a long time been on only a handful of social
honeybee and bumblebee species, out of thousands of bees species that have been …

Aim One of the most consistent global biogeographic patterns is the latitudinal diversity
gradient where species richness peaks within the equatorial tropics and decreases towards …

The study of social parasitism faces numerous challenges arising from the intricate and
intranidal host–parasite interactions and the rarity of parasites compared to their free-living …

In this review, we show that predatory ants have a wide range of foraging behavior,
something expected given their phylogenetic distance and the great variation in their colony …

Abstract The West-Palaearctic Colobopsis ant populations have long been considered a
single species (Colobopsis truncata). We studied the diversity of this species by employing a …

Bumble bees (genus Bombus) are important pollinators with more than 260 species found
worldwide, many of which are in decline. Twenty‐five species occur in California with the …

The ant Acromyrmex ameliae is a social parasite of two leaf-cutting ant subspecies:
Acromyrmex subterraneus subterraneus and A. subterraneus brunneus. Cytogenetic data …

Consistent differences in behavior among individual animals, also known as animal
personalities, are ubiquitous. In social insects, there is more than one biological scale at …

Inquiline ant social parasites exploit other ant species for their reproductive benefit because
they do not possess a worker caste. Due to their relative rarity in nature, the biology and …

Polyrhachis lamellidens is a temporary social parasitic species. When a newly mated queen
encounters a host worker, it opens its jaws and then mounts and rubs the body of the host …