Tobias Pamminger

TL;DR: It is demonstrated for the first time an induced defense against slave-making ants: Cues from the slavemaker Protomognathus americanus caused an unspecific but long-lasting behavioral response in Temnothorax host ants, showing the ability of host ants to remember parasite encounters.

TL;DR: This study investigates the behavioral mechanisms governing the spatial distribution of individual workers and its physiological underpinning in the ant Myrmica rubra and uncover position-associated behavioral syndromes, which could promote the basic separation between inside and outside workers.

TL;DR: A comprehensive geographically explicit dataset on nectar quality, offered to bees both within fields (crop and weed species) as well as outside fields (wild species) around the globe, finds that the total nectar sugar concentrations in general do not differ between the three plant communities studied.

TL;DR: This first detailed study comparing the aggressive responses of ant colonies toward slave-making ants to other species posing different threats indicates that the responses ofAnt colonies are adjusted to the risk each opponent poses to the colony.

TL;DR: It is shown experimentally, by integrating quantification of gene expression, physiology and behaviour, that the long-lived queens of the ant Lasius niger have escaped the reproduction–immunocompetence trade-off by decoupling the effects of a key endocrine regulator of fertility and immunocompetsence in solitary insects, juvenile hormone.