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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Nesting biology and social organisation of a silk wasp (Microstigmus rosae) from the North–West Ecuadorian Choco	26
Why does resource availability matter for honeybee colonies in spring?	25
Rapid elimination of symbiotic intestinal protists during the neotenic differentiation in a subterranean termite, Reticulitermes speratus	16
ANTS by Gary J. Skinner and Andrew P. Jarman. 2025	16
Olfactory associative learning in the Australian stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria	14
My early encounters with Ants and Hamilton’s inclusive fitness theory	13
The functional role of eversible tentacle organs in a myrmecophilous riodinid caterpillar and their impact on ant behavior	12
Variable impacts of urban habitat fragmentation on ant population genetics in the Philadelphia metropolitan area	10
Endopolyploidy and its role in shaping ant castes and colony dynamics: a study on Camponotus aff. balzani (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)	10
Swarming rate and timing of unmanaged honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera carnica) in a forest environment	10
Colony composition, phasic reproduction, caste dimorphism, and prey preferences of the oriental non-army doryline ant Yunodorylus eguchii (Borowiec, 2009) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae)	10
Sociality in the North African small carpenter bee, Ceratina albosticta	10
What if you can control whom your queen mates with?	8
Behavioral interactions in two ant species in the Southeast United States and evidence for a native supercolony	8
Rate of molecular evolution and life history traits of social insects	8
Special Issue: Sociable arthropods: broadening conceptions about social insects	8
Seasonal nutrient fluctuations in Reticulitermes flavipes workers and soldiers	7
Natural history and daily rhythm activity of the myrmecophytic ant, Pseudomyrmex concolor Smith (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)	7
The queens of the stingless bees: from egg to adult	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
Climatological influences on flight activity of Lepidotrigona flavibasis Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Meliponini)	6
The influence of illumination regimes on the structure of ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) community composition in urban habitats	6
Nest-founding by red imported fire ant queens (Solenopsis invicta) is not limited by Solenopsis thief ant populations	6
Tool use in pavement battles between ants: first report of Tetramorium immigrans (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) using soil-dropping as an interference strategy	6
From gene regulatory networks to social networks: integrative sociogenomics from single cell to superorganism	6

Beyond busy workers: exploring the sensitivity of inactive ants to environmental cues	6
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
The effect of transporting hitchhikers on the stability of loaded leaf-cutting ants	5
Reassembly of ground-dwelling ant communities in reforestation plots in SW Costa Rica	5
Red imported fire ant Solenopsis invicta buren workers do not have ovaries	5
Burying beetles as a model organism to study sex differences in parental care	5
Respiratory metabolism and energetics of Polistes paper wasp larvae and pupae from differing climates	5
Urban structures are poor stepping stones for crevice-nesting ants in fragmented landscapes	5
Age-related variation of homing range in honeybee males (Apis mellifera)	5
Temnothorax longispinosus acorn ant colonies respond to parasitic raids by emigrating	4
Correction to: Description of nest architecture and ecological notes on the bumblebee Bombus (Pyrobombus) lapponicus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombini)	4
In-nest behavior by tandem recruiters of the ant Temnothorax rugatulus: effects of context and quality	4
Brain plasticity indicates key cognitive demands in an animal society: caste comparisons in dampwood termites	4
Ovary activation correlates with the reproductive potential of honeybee (Apis mellifera) workers if they are in a foreign colony	4
Impact of empty flowers on foraging choice and movement within floral patches by the honey bee, Apis mellifera	4
Historical and present-day records on African termites: revisiting the diversity and distribution of Macrotermes in Namibia after six decades	4
Behavioral and morphological traits influencing variation in task performance of Camponotus vagus ants	4
Innate visual attraction in wood ants is a hardwired behavior seen across different motivational and ecological contexts	3
The timing of rubbish removal in the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus	3
Under pressure: the effect of long-term fungal infection on the encapsulation response in ants	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
Correction: Busy as a bee—or not?	3
Workers require more cognitive skills than soldiers, queens and kings	3
Diversity hidden in nests: worldwide account of nidicolous silverfish (Insecta: Zygentoma)	3
Myrmecophily among mesostigmatid mites	3
Colony life history of the tropical arboreal ant, Cephalotes goniodontus De Andrade, 1999	3
Nest protection and foraging behaviour in solitary and social nests of the socially polymorphic orchid bee Euglossa viridissima	3
Mutual avoidance at resources by the native winter ant and the invasive Argentine ant	3
Development of a standard medium for culturing the termite Reticulitermes speratus	3
Plan Bee: genetic diversity in an Australia honey bee (Apis mellifera) breeding program	3
Best Paper Announcement for 2023	3
Financial report: international union for the study of social insects 2023	3
Find and then forget: the pheromone dilemma in ants	3
Evidence of queen-rearing suppression by mature queens in the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata	2
Best paper announcement for 2024	2
Quit bugging me: phorid fly parasitoids affect expression of an immune gene in foraging fire ant workers	2
Stingless bee (Apidae: Meliponini) foraging and predation at trunk resin sources: Rare observations captured with microcontroller-based camera traps in a lowland dipterocarp forest	2
A new host for a new Rossomyrmex minuchae population	2
Identification of the critical period for socioenvironmental influences on caste determination in a termite	2
Survey of the exocrine glands in workers of the ant Leptanilla clypeata	2
Eusociality is not a major evolutionary transition, and why that matters	2
Optimal fissioning strategies of social insects with respect to colony dynamics and nest founding probability	2
No short-term effects of fire on termite diversity in a tropical mountain	2
Busy as a bee—or not?	2
Reproductive potentials of task-shifting workers in a queenless ant	2
An antifungal compound secreted by termite workers, phenylacetic acid, inhibits the growth of both termite egg-mimicking fungus and entomopathogenic fungi	2
Uncovering how behavioral variation underlying mutualist partner quality is partitioned within a species complex of keystone seed-dispersing ants	2
Reproductive inefficiency and increased behavioral variation are associated with large group size in the orchid bee, Euglossa dilemma	2
Dumping behaviour of Australian desert ants (Melophorus bagoti) (Hymenoptera:Formicidae)	2

Drivers of seed preferences and dispersal by granivorous ants in a semiarid grassland	2
Natural history of Camponotus renggeri and Camponotus rufipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in an Atlantic Forest reserve, Brazil	2
Nest architecture, worker reproduction, and polygyny in the ponerine ant Harpegnathos venator	2
The original histological sections of myrmecophilous and termitophilous beetles of Erich Wasmann (1859–1931)	2
Nest structure and colony composition of two neotropical mound-building termites (Blattaria: Termitidae: Nasutitermes coxipoensis and Cortaritermes intermedius)	2
Adaptive significance of early reproduction in Vespula shidai social wasps	2
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
Life history changes associated with myrmecophily: high longevity but low fecundity in a tiny cricket Myrmecophilus quadrispinus (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae) living in ant nests	1
Comparison of foraging tool use in two species of myrmicine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	1
Facultative commensalism of gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Neoponera verenae Forel, 1922 (Formicidae: Ponerinae) nests	1
A practical approach to RNA interference for studying gene function in a refractory social insect (on a limited budget)	1
Living together but apart: spatial and trophic niche segregation of two termite species sharing the same nest	1
Effects of simulated tropical heat waves during development on the morphological and reproductive traits of Africanized honey bee	1
A kleptoparasitic beetle larva (Hymenorus dorsalis) exploits vertical division of labor in nests of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius	1
Changes in gene expression align with behavioural differences in reproductive choices in a social beetle	1
No major difference in growth and productivity between monogynous and polygynous colonies in the ant Myrmecina graminicola	1
The discovery of mixed colonies in Temnothorax ants supports the territoriality hypothesis of dulotic social parasite evolution in myrmicine ants	1
Well-coordinated cooperative transport in the invasive ant Anoplolepis gracilipes	1
Effect of intraspecific competition on the demography of leaf-cutting ants: a matrix model approach	1
Virgin queen behaviour and controlled mating in the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria (Meliponini)	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
Colony structure, ecological correlates and nestmate recognition in the ant Odontomachus hastatus: a comparative study between populations with different social organisations	1
Honey bee beards: internal and external factors driving mass thermoregulatory evacuation	1
Metabarcoding of larval guts reveals diet diversity in native apex predators—the yellowjacket wasps Vespula vulgaris and Vespula germanica	1
Fire ant social supergene genotyping using polymorphic indel markers	1
Emergence of keystone individuals in the social networks of the ant Camponotus fellah	1
Social insect colony size is correlated with rates of molecular evolution	1
Climate, geography, and the mating phenology of ants	1
Special issue “The overlooked biodiversity of ant associates”	1
Description of nest architecture and ecological notes on the bumblebee Bombus (Pyrobombus) lapponicus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombini)	1
Unfavorable urban climatic conditions affects colony performance of an amazonian stingless bee (Apidae: Meliponini)	1
Co-occurrence of parasitoids from two distinct insect orders in a population of the myrmicine ant, Pheidole gouldi, in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico	1
Do diesel exhaust particles in pollen affect colony founding in the bumble bee Bombus terrestris?	1
Variability of nest relocation behavior among acorn ant species	1
Bee-Ing positive about wasp-negative media reporting: the opinions of scientists and their influence on the media	1
Disturbance impacts on ant interactions in different climatic regions	1
On the distribution and diversity of tissue-specific somatic mutations in honey bee (Apis mellifera) drones	1
Communal behavior and its exploitation in Tamalia social gall aphids (Aphididae: Tamaliinae)	1
Bumblebees exposed to a novel ‘bee-safe’ insecticide have impaired alloparental care and reproductive output	1
Forest logging is associated with shape of males and gynes in the wood ant Formica aquilonia	1
Does the history of option quality affect nest site choice in the Acorn ant?	1
Is disturbance stridulation in the passalid beetle Odontotaenius disjunctus a form of social communication?	1
Incipient colonies of the neotropical termite Cornitermes cumulans (Isoptera: Termitidae): comparing monogamy and polygamy as reproductive strategies	1
One nest, two niches? Distribution of alimentary resources between an inquiline termite and its host	1
Ant diversity studies in Brazil: an overview of the myrmecological research in a megadiverse country	1
Reviewing evidence for varied colony structures in honey bees	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
Temporal consistency and associations between behavioural responses of foragers of an Ectatominae ant in a multiple test set-up	1
Response of a temperate grassland ant community to burning	1