Body size is a key life-history trait influencing all aspects of an organism's biology. Ants
provide an interesting model for examining body-size variation because of the high degree …

Over recent years, modelling approaches from nutritional ecology (known as Nutritional
Geometry) have been increasingly used to describe how animals and some other organisms …

Trophallaxis is a complex social fluid exchange emblematic of social insects and of ants in
particular. Trophallaxis behaviors are present in approximately half of all ant genera …

Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) represent one of the most successful eusocial taxa in terms
of both their geographic distribution and species number. The publication of seven ant …

In social insect colonies, individuals need to communicate to coordinate cooperative tasks
and protect the colony and its resources against intruders. To maintain colony integrity, it can …

As a self-organizing entity, an ant colony must divide a limited number of workers among
numerous competing functions. Adaptive patterns of labor allocation should vary with colony …

The benefits of behavioral flexibility in social insect societies are well known, but the
advantages of limited flexibility have seldom been considered. Florida harvester ant …

Leafcutter ants are the ultimate insect superorganisms, with up to millions of physiologically
specialized workers cooperating to cut and transport vegetation and then convert it into …

Populations may collectively exhibit a broad diet because individuals have large diet
breadths and/or because subpopulations of specialists co‐occur. In social insect …

Resource availability can determine an organism's investment strategies for growth and
reproduction. When nutrients are limited, there are potential tradeoffs between investing into …