Abel Bernadou

Dinomyrmex gigas, the giant forest ant (large workers are ca. 28mm) dissolves territorial disputes with other colonies via a ritualized behavior called “front leg boxing”. This allows the ants to maintain territorial boundaries while avoiding escalated conflict. Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo.

Meet the Dracula ant Myopopone castanea, the only extant species in its genus. Like other ants in the subfamily Amblyoponinae, the workers pierce the larvae with their mandibles and drink the oozing hemolymph. Hence the name “Dracula ant”. Danum Valley, Sabah.

J'ai participé en tant que consultante scientifique sur ce film pour le Nikon Film Festival. Vous pouvez le visionner ici :
www.festivalnikon.fr/video/2025/2...
Ça a été l'occasion hier de faire une intervention avec @ssaft.com et @francois-lasserre.bsky.social sur la perception des insectes

a wasp with silver head and thorax, red legs and abdomen, grasps onto a dead twig with her mandibles while she sleeps at night in a desert shrub

her highness sleeps

Ammophila wasp on brittlebush (Encelia) distal twigs at night

take a close look ... she is SPECTACULAR!

L'étude publiée dans @cp-iscience.bsky.social :
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

🐜🥛 Des scientifiques ont « ressuscité » une ancienne recette des Balkans et de Turquie : le yaourt aux fourmis ! Leur étude, publiée dans la revue iScience, révèle que les #fourmis rousses (Formica spp.) possèdent un ensemble de ferments permettant de transformer le lait en yaourt 😆

Carreaux d'arbalète, chaussures tressées, cuir de mouton décoré… Un véritable musée naturel accroché aux falaises !

L'étude publiée dans Ecology:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🦅⛰️ Surprenantes découvertes : les gypaètes barbus ne se contentent pas de construire des nids, ils créent de véritables capsules temporelles. En Espagne, des chercheur·se·s ont découvert que certains nids pouvaient contenir des artefacts humains vieux de... 600 à 700 ans !

Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts

I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ??

here she is at her burrow entrance.

😮🤯

An illustration of a human and a robot watering a tree together. Image credit: Dave Cutler (artist).

Opinion: As human–AI interdependence deepens, could they form an integrated evolutionary individual, subject to collective selection? Explore this perspective in PNAS Front Matter: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#AI #evolution #singularity #ChatGPT #LLM #MajorEvolutionaryTransition

Départ pour Le Havre demain, rdv au festival sur les épaules des géants lehavre.fr/sur-les-epau...

💛 Le blob sera à l'honneur pour tous les publics avec 4 rencontres prévues 💛

1️⃣ Jeudi je débute avec deux conférences pour 300 élèves du CE1 eu CM2...Désolé les parents... Blobs offerts à l'adoption.

An aerial view of a rainforest with a river running through it. Text on top reads "Amazon Rainforest Day".

Today is #AmazonRainforestDay! Home to 47 million people and around 10% of all species on Earth, this incredible ecosystem is under threat from mass deforestation and climate change. You can visit buff.ly/D6xZCkJ to learn more about how to help the Amazon Rainforest.

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species

go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

This is just... 🤯🤯🤯

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

International Union for the Study of Social Insects International Congress of the Insternational Union for the Study of Social Insects

The 2026 international conference of the IUSSI will be in Freiburg, Germany, August 16th – 20st
iussi2026.org

New short communication!📄

Satizabal‑Niemeyer, @abelbernadou.bsky.social et al. showed that urban structures are poor substitutes for natural habitats and unlikely to maintain gene flow 🌆
doi.org/10.1007/s000...

#InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #AntResearch #UrbanEcology #Nest #Fragmentation

Absence of genetic isolation across highly fragmented landscape in the ant Temnothorax nigriceps - BMC Ecology and Evolution Background Human activities, including changes in agricultural landscapes, often impact biodiversity through habitat fragmentation. This potentially reduces genetic exchange between previously connect...

These two papers aim to study the population structure of the #ant Temnothorax nigriceps in a highly anthropised environment, and investigated whether this reduces genetic exchange between populations.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Very happy to see this paper published in #InsectesSociaux!

This study is a continuation of a story we published two years ago 😉 with @marioncordonnier.bsky.social

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Ants of the Amazon Rainforest - Alex Wild A sampling of one of the world's most diverse ant faunas

Ants of the Amazon Rainforest, a photo gallery.

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A starter pack for social evolution! Lots of space left for anyone who would like to be added

Le CRCA – @cbitoulouse.bsky.social
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Phrictus quinquepartitus is what I'd call the dragon-headed lantern bug with the multiple tubercles lining its snout, or apical process.

Photographed in Belize

Here's a starter pack for assembling a versatile collection of Ecology and Evolution journals. Feel free to share suggestions! Bookmark it in your Browser for quick access to explore publications in the field or find outlets for your work:

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There’s loads of invertebrate macrophotographers on Bsky now, so I’ve whipped up a starter pack to make it easy to fill your feed with excellent bug photos!

#Invertebrate #Macrophotography 🧪

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L'odyssée des fourmis en version Coréenne 🥰

Welcoming @joanieking.bsky.social @meganbarkdull.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social and @mischocarvalhus.bsky.social to our growing community of amazing ant scientists here on bsky! 🩵🐜🩷

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