Gema Trigos-Peral

Surviving in a new habitat isn’t easy… unless you land in the perfect spot. 🌍🐜
In Nerja (Málaga, Spain), Plagiolepis alluaudi seems to have landed in ideal climatic conditions.

Check out my new publication to learn more! 👉 shorturl.at/viNm0

#ants #exotic_species #urban_areas #climate

📣 Cities reshape ant diets 🐜🍬

An international team—Stukalyuk et al. (Ukraine), @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social (Germany) & @trigos-peral.bsky.social (Poland) found urban ants accept lower-sugar food than rural ones, likely adapting to different food sources. 👉 shorturl.at/W7bsm

#City #Ants #Nutrition

YouTube video by Iberian Group of Urban Ecology IGUE - Ibone Ametzaga Arregi - Ecosystem services and nature based solutions in urban areas

Now available in out YouTube channel the video of the last online meeting of the IGUE working group of the@eco-aeet.bsky.social

youtu.be/3822u5R6cIg

🪲📢 Are you searching for a postdoc? Don't miss this opportunity! 👉🏼
#postdoc #evolution #beetles #research

Another nice and fruitful collaboration with @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social 🐜

🧪 AIM member @trigos-peral.bsky.social takes part in a new article analyzing how urbanization affects the food resources of aphid-tending ants such as Lasius niger.

📢Would you like to know more about my research? 🐜🌳🌇

Have a look to my site 👉 shorturl.at/ZHkXZ

📢 New ant species in Poland! 🐜Dr. Trigos-Peral and Prof. Czechowski report the first Polish record of Plagiolepis pygmaea in Warsaw. This finding highlights the role of cities in introducing non-native ants. 📖 shorturl.at/dbn21

#biodiversity #ants #urbanecology #invasive #conservation

📢Enjoy our new work on urban ants! 🐜🌳

A fruitful collaboration with Stanislav Stukalyuk and @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social

#urbanization #nutrition #ants #food_sources

🐜🔍 Our researchers — Dr. Magdalena Witek, Dr. Gema Trigos‑Peral and Dr. Filip Turza — spent a wonderful morning at Monet International School, where students explored live ant colonies up close. ✨ Curiosity was buzzing everywhere! #Education #ScienceCommunication #Ants #SocialInsects

📢 Agenda Formidable: ¡La Asociación Ibérica de Mirmecología #AIM está lanzando una emocionante iniciativa para impulsar nuestra presencia en las redes sociales y promover el fascinante mundo de las #hormigas!

Galleria mellonella larva, source: Wikimedia Commons

❗ Applications to a new PhD position within an NCN @ncn.gov.pl project (Opus 28+LAP) are now open ❗
💡 The project, led by Dr Agata Kaczmarek, focuses on nutritional immunology and combines:
🧬 immunology
🦠 microbiology
🧪 molecular biology
🧉 metabolomics and lipidomics
🔗 tinyurl.com/4uynmj75

📢Plagiolepis pygmaea, a thermophilous Mediterranean ant, is now in Warsaw 🐜🐜🐜 @mizpas.bsky.social. Likely introduced via human activity, it has persisted despite strong climatic differences from its native range. Learn more in our new paper! Link shorturl.at/5BdHf #exotic_species #human_activities

📢Dr. Attisano and Prof. Jorn Theuerkauf from @MIZ_PAS have participated in the first worldwide evaluation of BirdNET – an AI tool to assess bird communities globally 🐦Link to the paper 👉 shorturl.at/Tk29U
#science #birds #acoustic_monitoring #global_biodiversity

Our researcher @justynakubacka.bsky.social has recently talked on population genomics of aquatic warbler at:
📢Genomics for Biodiversity Conference - from genomes to impact
🎥 tinyurl.com/mr6dhbpj (from 01:25:30)
📢International Aquatic Warbler Conference
🎥📗 tinyurl.com/2ck2yjs7

📷Irene Arnaldos Giner

We are happy to announce the next speaker for our #UrbanEcology event in January! We will have @ylndmc.bsky.social (@ubms.creaf.cat) from @creaf.cat, who will be talking about butterflies in the city.

Save the date with the QR code or going directly to this link: drive.google.com/file/d/19iTA...

📢 Researchers from the MIZ PAN, PhD student Tomasz Czerwiński and Prof. Karol Szawaryn, report the appearance of new invasive beetle species in Poland 🪲.
A new article is available at the following link 👉🏼 shorturl.at/T22X0
#biologigal_invasions #beetles #Polish_fauna #new_record

Restoring the nest after the rain... 🐜
Tapinoma ibericum, Bormujos, Spain.
#ants #nature #soil_organisms #ecosystem_engineers

🐜Ants in a teapot!!!
Our researchers documented Camponotus nicobarensis escaping a home formicarium and nesting in ceramic teapots, raising brood successfully. A striking example of ant adaptability and a warning about risks linked to exotic ant trade. 🔗https://shorturl.at/NruKr
#Ants #AnimalTrade

Postdoctoral position in agroecology for TRANSFORM Project The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) is offering a full-time postdoctoral research position to support activities within a Horizon Europe project. The project focuses on developing innovative cr...

A nice job opportunity in science!

info.bc3research.org/2025/11/06/p...

📢I would like to share with you two opportunities to work in urban ecology with birds. The urban group at University of Granada is looking for a PhD candidate and a postdoc. More info in the attachments! #urbanEcology #birds #PhDcandidate #Postdoc #ResearchOpportunities

Thanks @igue-aeet.bsky.social for this opportunity to show my research! #ants #urbanization #adaptations

YouTube video by Iberian Group of Urban Ecology IGUE - Gema Trigos Peral: Background mechanisms shaping ant communities in urban ecosystems

You can already watch (or watch again) the seminar given by @trigos-peral.bsky.social from @mizpas.bsky.social in our #UrbanEcology seminar series.
Would you like to know more about how urbanization (♨️💡) shapes ant 🐜 performance and behaviour?
Have a look here: youtu.be/G8N-bkMA-oA?...

🌿🐜 Don’t miss it this Thursday - 16:30h!
Join our colleague Gema Trigos-Peral (MIZ, @trigos-peral.bsky.social ) for an online seminar on urban ant ecology organized by @igue-aeet.bsky.social . Discover how these tiny creatures play a big role in shaping our cities!
🔗 rb.gy/hvikb1

🐜 Hormigas al descubierto: ¡Una tetera… convertida en hormiguero!

🔍 Nuestra socia Gema Trigos-Peral ha colaborado en un estudio tan curioso como revelador sobre #Camponotus nicobarensis...

The flightless beetles of the tribe #Dorcadionini (Col: Cerambycidae) in #CentralAsia are similar but not closely related. Their first phylogeny is now out in a paper led by @ceramb.bsky.social of MIZ PAS. Environmental adaptation could play a key role here. @ncn.gov.pl
👉https://tinyurl.com/yy9kp2ab

Do we really know how plastic ant species are to accurately determine their capacity of stablishing in a new habitat? The curious journey of an ant colony in our new paper

👉🏼 zenodo.org/records/1751...

🐜🐜🐜 #ants #pets #formicarium #ecology #animal_trade

💡 New paper co-auth. by MIZ!
By altering the physical and chemical properties of the soil, soil-nesting ants can shape the biodiversity of soil microarthropods — a key role for conserving urban biodiversity. 🐜More info 👉 www.mdpi.com/3547020
#UrbanEcosystems #Ants #SoilMicroarthropods #Conservation