1. Insectes Sociaux Best Paper 2017

   Announcement 24 January 2018 Pages: 1 - 1

2. What’s in a face?

   • Michael Breed

   Highlighted Article 23 January 2018 Pages: 3 - 4

3. The distribution of thelytoky, arrhenotoky and androgenesis among castes in the eusocial Hymenoptera

   • Frances Goudie
   • Benjamin P. Oldroyd

   Review Article 21 December 2017 Pages: 5 - 16

   

4. Allee effect in termite colony formation: influence of alate density and flight timing on pairing success and survivorship

   • A. Kusaka
   • K. Matsuura

   Research Article 23 September 2017 Pages: 17 - 24

   

5. Contrasting termite diversity and assemblages on granitic and basaltic African savanna landscapes

   • J. Muvengwi
   • A. B. Davies
   • E. T. F. Witkowski

   Research Article 27 September 2017 Pages: 25 - 35

   

6. No evidence for tactile communication of direction in foraging Lasius ants

   • S. Popp
   • P. Buckham-Bonnett
   • T. J. Czaczkes

   Research Article 04 October 2017 Pages: 37 - 46

   

7. Morphological characteristics reflect food sources and degree of host ant specificity in four Myrmecophilus crickets

   • T. Komatsu
   • M. Maruyama
   • T. Itino

   Research Article 17 October 2017 Pages: 47 - 57

   

8. Army imposters: diversification of army ant-mimicking beetles with their Eciton hosts

   • S. Pérez-Espona
   • W. P. Goodall-Copestake
   • N. R. Franks

   Research Article 17 October 2017 Pages: 59 - 75

   

9. Evidence from Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy (MIRS) that the biochemical fingerprints of Odontotermes obesus colonies change according to their geographical location and age

   • P. Jouquet
   • A. Pando
   • N. Bottinelli

   Research Article 10 November 2017 Pages: 77 - 84

   

10. Effects of social organization and resource availability on brood parasitism in the facultatively social nocturnal bee Megalopta genalis

    • Adam Smith
    • Christine Harper
    • William Wcislo

    Research Article 11 November 2017 Pages: 85 - 93

    

11. Heptyl butyrate, a putative pheromone involved in social communication of Vespula germanica wasps

    • Micaela Buteler
    • Patricia Fernandez
    • Mariana Lozada

    Research Article 10 November 2017 Pages: 95 - 101

    

12. Insights into the biodiversity and causes of distribution of potential entomopathogens associated with leaf-cutting ants

    • D. Goffré
    • P. J. Folgarait

    Research Article 24 November 2017 Pages: 103 - 115

    

13. Nesting characteristics, floral resources, and foraging activity of Trigona iridipennis Smith in Bankura district of West Bengal, India

    • U. Layek
    • P. Karmakar

    Research Article 15 November 2017 Pages: 117 - 132

    

14. From inside to outside and back again: changing waste dump formation, defecation and worker localization in a clonal ant

    • A. Bernadou
    • T. J. Czaczkes
    • J. Heinze

    Research Article 25 November 2017 Pages: 133 - 140

    

15. Limits of vector calibration in the Australian desert ant, Melophorus bagoti

    • Cody A. Freas
    • Ken Cheng

    Research Article 20 December 2017 Pages: 141 - 152

    

16. Individual and colony level choice during relocation to unequal target nests in an Indian queenless ant Diacamma indicum

    • Anoop Karunakaran
    • Sumana Annagiri

    Research Article 19 December 2017 Pages: 153 - 160

    

17. Testing the signal value of clypeal black patterning in an Italian population of the paper wasp Polistes dominula

    • R. Branconi
    • D. Baracchi
    • R. Cervo

    Research Article 26 December 2017 Pages: 161 - 169

    

18. Effect of the presence of brood on the behavior and nutrient levels of emerging individuals in field colonies of Polistes metricus

    • T. M. Judd

    Research Article 03 January 2018 Pages: 171 - 182

    

19. Day/night upper thermal limits differ within Ectatomma ruidum ant colonies

    • A. S. Nelson
    • T. Scott
    • S. O’Donnell

    Short Communication 10 October 2017 Pages: 183 - 189

    

20. Detection of honey bee viruses in Argentinian stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

    • L J Alvarez
    • F J Reynaldi
    • M Lucia

    Short Communication 16 October 2017 Pages: 191 - 197