OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Insectes Sociaux is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Nesting biology and social organisation of a silk wasp (Microstigmus rosae) from the North–West Ecuadorian Choco	32
Rapid elimination of symbiotic intestinal protists during the neotenic differentiation in a subterranean termite, Reticulitermes speratus	27
Why does resource availability matter for honeybee colonies in spring?	22
ANTS by Gary J. Skinner and Andrew P. Jarman. 2025	17
The functional role of eversible tentacle organs in a myrmecophilous riodinid caterpillar and their impact on ant behavior	15
Swarming rate and timing of unmanaged honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera carnica) in a forest environment	14
Endopolyploidy and its role in shaping ant castes and colony dynamics: a study on Camponotus aff. balzani (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)	12
Olfactory associative learning in the Australian stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria	11
Colony composition, phasic reproduction, caste dimorphism, and prey preferences of the oriental non-army doryline ant Yunodorylus eguchii (Borowiec, 2009) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae)	11
Sociality in the North African small carpenter bee, Ceratina albosticta	11
My early encounters with Ants and Hamilton’s inclusive fitness theory	11
Variable impacts of urban habitat fragmentation on ant population genetics in the Philadelphia metropolitan area	11
Special Issue: Sociable arthropods: broadening conceptions about social insects	11
Rate of molecular evolution and life history traits of social insects	10
What if you can control whom your queen mates with?	10
Building a polydomous colony: nest network expansion by Linepithema humile	9
Seasonal nutrient fluctuations in Reticulitermes flavipes workers and soldiers	9
The queens of the stingless bees: from egg to adult	9
Interactions between ants and diaspores in a Brazilian hotspot: an overview of trends and gaps in literature	8
From gene regulatory networks to social networks: integrative sociogenomics from single cell to superorganism	7
Behavioral interactions in two ant species in the Southeast United States and evidence for a native supercolony	7
The influence of illumination regimes on the structure of ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) community composition in urban habitats	7
Urban structures are poor stepping stones for crevice-nesting ants in fragmented landscapes	6
Mutualistic interactions between fire bees and treehoppers	6
Tool use in pavement battles between ants: first report of Tetramorium immigrans (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) using soil-dropping as an interference strategy	6

Burying beetles as a model organism to study sex differences in parental care	6
The effect of transporting hitchhikers on the stability of loaded leaf-cutting ants	6
Nest-founding by red imported fire ant queens (Solenopsis invicta) is not limited by Solenopsis thief ant populations	6
Ants (Lasius niger) deposit more pheromone close to food sources and further from the nest but do not attempt to update erroneous pheromone trails	6
Climatological influences on flight activity of Lepidotrigona flavibasis Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Meliponini)	6
Trophobiotic interactions between subsocial or communal treehoppers and the ant Ectatomma tuberculatum in Mexico	6
Red imported fire ant Solenopsis invicta buren workers do not have ovaries	5
Beyond busy workers: exploring the sensitivity of inactive ants to environmental cues	5
Reassembly of ground-dwelling ant communities in reforestation plots in SW Costa Rica	5
Temnothorax longispinosus acorn ant colonies respond to parasitic raids by emigrating	5
Sociable arthropods: broadening conceptions about social insects	5
Conference contributions by section members of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI) at international IUSSI conferences (1952–2022) are not in accordance with membership numb	5
Respiratory metabolism and energetics of Polistes paper wasp larvae and pupae from differing climates	5
Historical and present-day records on African termites: revisiting the diversity and distribution of Macrotermes in Namibia after six decades	4
Colony life history of the tropical arboreal ant, Cephalotes goniodontus De Andrade, 1999	4
Under pressure: the effect of long-term fungal infection on the encapsulation response in ants	4
Development of a standard medium for culturing the termite Reticulitermes speratus	4
Impact of empty flowers on foraging choice and movement within floral patches by the honey bee, Apis mellifera	4
The timing of rubbish removal in the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus	4
Innate visual attraction in wood ants is a hardwired behavior seen across different motivational and ecological contexts	4
Diversity hidden in nests: worldwide account of nidicolous silverfish (Insecta: Zygentoma)	4
Brain plasticity indicates key cognitive demands in an animal society: caste comparisons in dampwood termites	4
Behavioral and morphological traits influencing variation in task performance of Camponotus vagus ants	4
Correction to: Description of nest architecture and ecological notes on the bumblebee Bombus (Pyrobombus) lapponicus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombini)	4
Myrmecophily among mesostigmatid mites	4
Plan Bee: genetic diversity in an Australia honey bee (Apis mellifera) breeding program	4
Busy as a bee—or not?	3
Coordinated adjustment of flight fuel by nectar volume and concentration in honeybee recruitment	3
Stingless bee (Apidae: Meliponini) foraging and predation at trunk resin sources: Rare observations captured with microcontroller-based camera traps in a lowland dipterocarp forest	3
The temperate arboreal ant Camponotus yamaokai with intranidal mating exhibits extended mating seasons in spring and autumn	3
Occupation of twigs by ants in the leaf litter: is there a relationship between the morphology of the castes and the entrance hole?	3
Mutual avoidance at resources by the native winter ant and the invasive Argentine ant	3
Find and then forget: the pheromone dilemma in ants	3
Quit bugging me: phorid fly parasitoids affect expression of an immune gene in foraging fire ant workers	3
Natural history of Camponotus renggeri and Camponotus rufipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in an Atlantic Forest reserve, Brazil	3
Dumping behaviour of Australian desert ants (Melophorus bagoti) (Hymenoptera:Formicidae)	3
Best Paper Announcement for 2023	3
Nest protection and foraging behaviour in solitary and social nests of the socially polymorphic orchid bee Euglossa viridissima	3
Correction: Busy as a bee—or not?	3
Drivers of seed preferences and dispersal by granivorous ants in a semiarid grassland	3
Best paper announcement for 2024	3
Optimal fissioning strategies of social insects with respect to colony dynamics and nest founding probability	3
Workers require more cognitive skills than soldiers, queens and kings	3
Financial report: international union for the study of social insects 2023	3
No short-term effects of fire on termite diversity in a tropical mountain	3
Evidence of queen-rearing suppression by mature queens in the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata	2
Life history and host relationship of Gollumiella buffingtoni Heraty, 2004 (Hymenoptera, Eucharitidae, Gollumiellinae) with Nylanderia flavipes (Smith, 1874) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae)	2
An antifungal compound secreted by termite workers, phenylacetic acid, inhibits the growth of both termite egg-mimicking fungus and entomopathogenic fungi	2
Well-coordinated cooperative transport in the invasive ant Anoplolepis gracilipes	2
Uncovering how behavioral variation underlying mutualist partner quality is partitioned within a species complex of keystone seed-dispersing ants	2

Special issue “The overlooked biodiversity of ant associates”	2
Adaptive significance of early reproduction in Vespula shidai social wasps	2
Reproductive potentials of task-shifting workers in a queenless ant	2
Investigating the effects of biogenic amines on the dominance hierarchy in the small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata	2
A new host for a new Rossomyrmex minuchae population	2
The original histological sections of myrmecophilous and termitophilous beetles of Erich Wasmann (1859–1931)	2
Parasitoidic strategy of Ogkosoma cremieri (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Hybrizontinae) against Lasius capitatus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	2
Co-occurrence of parasitoids from two distinct insect orders in a population of the myrmicine ant, Pheidole gouldi, in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico	2
Climate, geography, and the mating phenology of ants	2
Novelty-response behavior and size relationships in Camponotus japonicus foragers	2
Reviewing evidence for varied colony structures in honey bees	2
Reproductive inefficiency and increased behavioral variation are associated with large group size in the orchid bee, Euglossa dilemma	2
Eusociality is not a major evolutionary transition, and why that matters	2
Unfavorable urban climatic conditions affects colony performance of an amazonian stingless bee (Apidae: Meliponini)	2
One nest, two niches? Distribution of alimentary resources between an inquiline termite and its host	2
Disturbance impacts on ant interactions in different climatic regions	2
Multiple fungal hosts in an ant microcosm: Rickia wasmannii infecting larvae, winged sexuals, and arthropod associates of Myrmica ants	2
The discovery of mixed colonies in Temnothorax ants supports the territoriality hypothesis of dulotic social parasite evolution in myrmicine ants	2
Nest structure and colony composition of two neotropical mound-building termites (Blattaria: Termitidae: Nasutitermes coxipoensis and Cortaritermes intermedius)	2
Identification of the critical period for socioenvironmental influences on caste determination in a termite	2
Changes in gene expression align with behavioural differences in reproductive choices in a social beetle	1
Is disturbance stridulation in the passalid beetle Odontotaenius disjunctus a form of social communication?	1
Ant activity and interspecific competition in territories of tropical dominant species are more strongly affected by forest stratum than diel period or bait exposure time	1
Social context predicts male dispersal in nests of a paper wasp	1
Exploring distribution, caste-specific seasonality, and winter activity of three invasive wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in New Zealand using citizen science data	1
Indicator ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of disturbance in Mexico	1
Colony fusion promotes growth of early-stage termite colonies	1
Intraspecific variation of sex ratio and body size along latitude in the termite Reticulitermes speratus (Isoptera: Heterotermitidae)	1
Emergence of keystone individuals in the social networks of the ant Camponotus fellah	1
Differences in the occurrence of leg glands between the social parasite S. mutica (Brown, 1949) and other Strumigenys ants	1
Life history changes associated with myrmecophily: high longevity but low fecundity in a tiny cricket Myrmecophilus quadrispinus (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae) living in ant nests	1
Facultative commensalism of gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Neoponera verenae Forel, 1922 (Formicidae: Ponerinae) nests	1
Do diesel exhaust particles in pollen affect colony founding in the bumble bee Bombus terrestris?	1
Metabarcoding of larval guts reveals diet diversity in native apex predators—the yellowjacket wasps Vespula vulgaris and Vespula germanica	1
No major difference in growth and productivity between monogynous and polygynous colonies in the ant Myrmecina graminicola	1
On the distribution and diversity of tissue-specific somatic mutations in honey bee (Apis mellifera) drones	1
Intercastes in the ant Aphaenogaster rugulosa (Formicidae: Myrmicinae): morphological variation and adaptive potential	1
A call to termitologists: it is time to abandon the use of “lower” and “higher” termites	1
Ant nests differentially affect soil chemistry across elevational gradients	1
Living together but apart: spatial and trophic niche segregation of two termite species sharing the same nest	1
Correction to: Protecting pollinators and our food supply: understanding and managing threats to pollinator health	1
Honey bee beards: internal and external factors driving mass thermoregulatory evacuation	1
Variability of nest relocation behavior among acorn ant species	1
Virgin queen behaviour and controlled mating in the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria (Meliponini)	1
Bee-Ing positive about wasp-negative media reporting: the opinions of scientists and their influence on the media	1
Multiple mating predicts queen reproductive output in the polygynous Neotropical trap-jaw ant, Odontomachus chelifer (Formicidae: Ponerinae)	1
To mine or not to mine—asked the Drosophila larva	1
Comparative genetic study of the colony structure and colony spatial distribution between the higher termite Amitermes parvulus and the lower, subterranean termite Reticulitermes flavipes in an urban	1
Effect of intraspecific competition on the demography of leaf-cutting ants: a matrix model approach	1
A kleptoparasitic beetle larva (Hymenorus dorsalis) exploits vertical division of labor in nests of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius	1
Colony structure, ecological correlates and nestmate recognition in the ant Odontomachus hastatus: a comparative study between populations with different social organisations	1
Different nest entrance architecture by Colobopsis and Temnothorax ants colonizing oak galls	1
Relatedness within colonies of three North American species of carpenter ants (Subgenus: Camponotus) and a comparison with relatedness estimates across Formicinae	1
A review of stingless bee plant sources in the Indo-Malayan region	1
Does the history of option quality affect nest site choice in the Acorn ant?	1
Temporal consistency and associations between behavioural responses of foragers of an Ectatominae ant in a multiple test set-up	1
A practical approach to RNA interference for studying gene function in a refractory social insect (on a limited budget)	1
Mite–termite interaction: does termite mortality mediate mite density?	1
Communal behavior and its exploitation in Tamalia social gall aphids (Aphididae: Tamaliinae)	1
Effects of simulated tropical heat waves during development on the morphological and reproductive traits of Africanized honey bee	1
Bumblebees exposed to a novel ‘bee-safe’ insecticide have impaired alloparental care and reproductive output	1
Fire ant social supergene genotyping using polymorphic indel markers	1