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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Nesting biology and social organisation of a silk wasp (Microstigmus rosae) from the North–West Ecuadorian Choco	36
Rapid elimination of symbiotic intestinal protists during the neotenic differentiation in a subterranean termite, Reticulitermes speratus	29
Why does resource availability matter for honeybee colonies in spring?	24
ANTS by Gary J. Skinner and Andrew P. Jarman. 2025	19
Endopolyploidy and its role in shaping ant castes and colony dynamics: a study on Camponotus aff. balzani (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)	18
Sociality in the North African small carpenter bee, Ceratina albosticta	15
Variable impacts of urban habitat fragmentation on ant population genetics in the Philadelphia metropolitan area	14
Colony composition, phasic reproduction, caste dimorphism, and prey preferences of the oriental non-army doryline ant Yunodorylus eguchii (Borowiec, 2009) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae)	14
The functional role of eversible tentacle organs in a myrmecophilous riodinid caterpillar and their impact on ant behavior	12
My early encounters with Ants and Hamilton’s inclusive fitness theory	12
Special Issue: Sociable arthropods: broadening conceptions about social insects	11
Swarming rate and timing of unmanaged honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera carnica) in a forest environment	11
What if you can control whom your queen mates with?	11
Olfactory associative learning in the Australian stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria	11
Seasonal nutrient fluctuations in Reticulitermes flavipes workers and soldiers	10
Behavioral interactions in two ant species in the Southeast United States and evidence for a native supercolony	10
The queens of the stingless bees: from egg to adult	8
Interactions between ants and diaspores in a Brazilian hotspot: an overview of trends and gaps in literature	8
Building a polydomous colony: nest network expansion by Linepithema humile	8
The influence of illumination regimes on the structure of ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) community composition in urban habitats	7
From gene regulatory networks to social networks: integrative sociogenomics from single cell to superorganism	7
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
Nest-founding by red imported fire ant queens (Solenopsis invicta) is not limited by Solenopsis thief ant populations	6
Climatological influences on flight activity of Lepidotrigona flavibasis Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Meliponini)	6
The effect of transporting hitchhikers on the stability of loaded leaf-cutting ants	6

Tool use in pavement battles between ants: first report of Tetramorium immigrans (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) using soil-dropping as an interference strategy	6
Urban structures are poor stepping stones for crevice-nesting ants in fragmented landscapes	6
Mutualistic interactions between fire bees and treehoppers	6
Trophobiotic interactions between subsocial or communal treehoppers and the ant Ectatomma tuberculatum in Mexico	6
Sociable arthropods: broadening conceptions about social insects	6
Reassembly of ground-dwelling ant communities in reforestation plots in SW Costa Rica	6
Respiratory metabolism and energetics of Polistes paper wasp larvae and pupae from differing climates	5
Obligate association between the cleptobiotic ant Strumigenys incerta and its host Cryptopone sauteri	5
Temnothorax longispinosus acorn ant colonies respond to parasitic raids by emigrating	5
Burying beetles as a model organism to study sex differences in parental care	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
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
Hidden chambers, visible impacts: hypogeal construction and soil modification by Constrictotermes cyphergaster (Termitidae: Nasutitermitinae)	5
Impact of empty flowers on foraging choice and movement within floral patches by the honey bee, Apis mellifera	5
The influence of prey weight and size on prey selection by the individually foraging ant Dinoponera quadriceps	4
Under pressure: the effect of long-term fungal infection on the encapsulation response in ants	4
Plan Bee: genetic diversity in an Australia honey bee (Apis mellifera) breeding program	4
Historical and present-day records on African termites: revisiting the diversity and distribution of Macrotermes in Namibia after six decades	4
A non-invasive method for estimating termite colony biomass using CO2 concentrations in laboratory conditions	4
The timing of rubbish removal in the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus	4
Colony life history of the tropical arboreal ant, Cephalotes goniodontus De Andrade, 1999	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
Diversity hidden in nests: worldwide account of nidicolous silverfish (Insecta: Zygentoma)	4
Myrmecophily among mesostigmatid mites	3
Drivers of seed preferences and dispersal by granivorous ants in a semiarid grassland	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
Mutual avoidance at resources by the native winter ant and the invasive Argentine ant	3
Correction: Busy as a bee—or not?	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
Best Paper Announcement for 2023	3
Workers require more cognitive skills than soldiers, queens and kings	3
Optimal fissioning strategies of social insects with respect to colony dynamics and nest founding probability	3
Best paper announcement for 2024	3
No short-term effects of fire on termite diversity in a tropical mountain	3
Find and then forget: the pheromone dilemma in ants	3
Nest protection and foraging behaviour in solitary and social nests of the socially polymorphic orchid bee Euglossa viridissima	3
Development of a standard medium for culturing the termite Reticulitermes speratus	3
The temperate arboreal ant Camponotus yamaokai with intranidal mating exhibits extended mating seasons in spring and autumn	3
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
Financial report: international union for the study of social insects 2023	3
The significance of “abdominal signalling” in the obligate mutualism between Neochavesia caldasiae (Balachowsky, 1957) (Hemiptera: Xenococcidae) and Acropyga fuhrmanni (Forel, 1914) (Formicidae: Formi	3
The discovery of mixed colonies in Temnothorax ants supports the territoriality hypothesis of dulotic social parasite evolution in myrmicine ants	2
Climate, geography, and the mating phenology of ants	2
Reproductive inefficiency and increased behavioral variation are associated with large group size in the orchid bee, Euglossa dilemma	2
An antifungal compound secreted by termite workers, phenylacetic acid, inhibits the growth of both termite egg-mimicking fungus and entomopathogenic fungi	2

Pheromone trail following is not modulated by previous visit to food location, distance travelled, or travel direction in the ant Lasius niger	2
Disturbance impacts on ant interactions in different climatic regions	2
The original histological sections of myrmecophilous and termitophilous beetles of Erich Wasmann (1859–1931)	2
Adaptive significance of early reproduction in Vespula shidai social wasps	2
Dumping behaviour of Australian desert ants (Melophorus bagoti) (Hymenoptera:Formicidae)	2
Eusociality is not a major evolutionary transition, and why that matters	2
Life history and host relationship of Gollumiella buffingtoni Heraty, 2004 (Hymenoptera, Eucharitidae, Gollumiellinae) with Nylanderia flavipes (Smith, 1874) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae)	2
Well-coordinated cooperative transport in the invasive ant Anoplolepis gracilipes	2
One nest, two niches? Distribution of alimentary resources between an inquiline termite and its host	2
Nest structure and colony composition of two neotropical mound-building termites (Blattaria: Termitidae: Nasutitermes coxipoensis and Cortaritermes intermedius)	2
No major difference in growth and productivity between monogynous and polygynous colonies in the ant Myrmecina graminicola	2
International Union for the Study of Social Insects Report of Secretary-General Mark J F Brown Financial report covering period December 31 2024–December 31 2025	2
Reproductive potentials of task-shifting workers in a queenless ant	2
Multiple fungal hosts in an ant microcosm: Rickia wasmannii infecting larvae, winged sexuals, and arthropod associates of Myrmica ants	2
Unfavorable urban climatic conditions affects colony performance of an amazonian stingless bee (Apidae: Meliponini)	2
Evidence of queen-rearing suppression by mature queens in the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata	2
Identification of the critical period for socioenvironmental influences on caste determination in a termite	2
Nipponoxenos vespularum in South Korea: a new host record and host-specific stylopization patterns in Vespula	2
Changes in gene expression align with behavioural differences in reproductive choices in a social beetle	2
Special issue “The overlooked biodiversity of ant associates”	2
Reviewing evidence for varied colony structures in honey bees	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
Investigating the effects of biogenic amines on the dominance hierarchy in the small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata	2
Novelty-response behavior and size relationships in Camponotus japonicus foragers	2
Parasitoidic strategy of Ogkosoma cremieri (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Hybrizontinae) against Lasius capitatus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	2
A new host for a new Rossomyrmex minuchae population	2
Defensive behavior of termite workers depends on the queen rather than soldiers in Reticulitermes chinensis (Blattodea: Heterotermitidae)	2
Nest establishment in the Australian stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria	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
Exploring distribution, caste-specific seasonality, and winter activity of three invasive wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in New Zealand using citizen science data	1
Communal behavior and its exploitation in Tamalia social gall aphids (Aphididae: Tamaliinae)	1
A review of stingless bee plant sources in the Indo-Malayan region	1
Colony structure, ecological correlates and nestmate recognition in the ant Odontomachus hastatus: a comparative study between populations with different social organisations	1
Intraspecific variation of sex ratio and body size along latitude in the termite Reticulitermes speratus (Isoptera: Heterotermitidae)	1
On the distribution and diversity of tissue-specific somatic mutations in honey bee (Apis mellifera) drones	1
The short-term response of ants to sporadic rain events is consistent with the optimal defense hypothesis in an ant-plant mutualism	1
Living together but apart: spatial and trophic niche segregation of two termite species sharing the same nest	1
Fire ant social supergene genotyping using polymorphic indel markers	1
Colony density influences colony demographics and reproductive investment in managed honey bees, Apis mellifera L.	1
Bee-Ing positive about wasp-negative media reporting: the opinions of scientists and their influence on the media	1
A kleptoparasitic beetle larva (Hymenorus dorsalis) exploits vertical division of labor in nests of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius	1
Social context predicts male dispersal in nests of a paper wasp	1
Correction to: Protecting pollinators and our food supply: understanding and managing threats to pollinator health	1
Virgin queen behaviour and controlled mating in the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria (Meliponini)	1
Relatedness within colonies of three North American species of carpenter ants (Subgenus: Camponotus) and a comparison with relatedness estimates across Formicinae	1
Colony fusion promotes growth of early-stage termite colonies	1
Temporal consistency and associations between behavioural responses of foragers of an Ectatominae ant in a multiple test set-up	1
Variability of nest relocation behavior among acorn ant species	1
Does the history of option quality affect nest site choice in the Acorn ant?	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
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
Metabarcoding of larval guts reveals diet diversity in native apex predators—the yellowjacket wasps Vespula vulgaris and Vespula germanica	1
Is disturbance stridulation in the passalid beetle Odontotaenius disjunctus a form of social communication?	1
Effects of simulated tropical heat waves during development on the morphological and reproductive traits of Africanized honey bee	1
Facultative commensalism of gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Neoponera verenae Forel, 1922 (Formicidae: Ponerinae) nests	1
Newly emerged bumblebees are highly susceptible to gut parasite infection	1
Age-related task progression in two Australian Tetragonula stingless bees	1
A call to termitologists: it is time to abandon the use of “lower” and “higher” termites	1
Honey bee beards: internal and external factors driving mass thermoregulatory evacuation	1
Indicator ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of disturbance in Mexico	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
Differences in the occurrence of leg glands between the social parasite S. mutica (Brown, 1949) and other Strumigenys ants	1
Emergence of keystone individuals in the social networks of the ant Camponotus fellah	1
To mine or not to mine—asked the Drosophila larva	1
Multiple mating predicts queen reproductive output in the polygynous Neotropical trap-jaw ant, Odontomachus chelifer (Formicidae: Ponerinae)	1
Bumblebees exposed to a novel ‘bee-safe’ insecticide have impaired alloparental care and reproductive output	1
Do diesel exhaust particles in pollen affect colony founding in the bumble bee Bombus terrestris?	1
Honey bees actively process dead mice inside their nests	1
Intercastes in the ant Aphaenogaster rugulosa (Formicidae: Myrmicinae): morphological variation and adaptive potential	1
Aggressive behavior across ant lineages: importance, quantification, and associations with trait evolution	1