1. Insectes Sociaux Best Paper 2019

   ANNOUNCEMENT 20 February 2020 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Mycocepurus smithii, how does your garden grow?

   • M. H. Richards

   Editorial 20 February 2020 Pages: 3 - 4

3. The international union for the study of social insects’ Hamilton Award

   • M. Beekman
   • M. H. Richards

   Editorial 02 December 2019 Pages: 5 - 5

4. Tracking the narrow roads of gene land

   • J. J. Boomsma

   Editorial 16 December 2019 Pages: 7 - 10

   

5. Brood recognition and discrimination in ants

   • E. Schultner
   • U. Pulliainen

   Review Article Open access 22 January 2020 Pages: 11 - 34

   

6. Colony fitness and garden growth in the asexual fungus-growing ant Mycocepurus smithii (Attini, Formicidae)

   • C.-C. Fang
   • F.-H. Chang
   • U. G. Mueller

   Research Article 07 December 2019 Pages: 35 - 49

   

7. Upper thermal tolerance of tropical and temperate termite species (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae, Termitidae): a test of the climate variability hypothesis in termites

   • M. Janowiecki
   • E. Clifton
   • E. L. Vargo

   Research Article 04 October 2019 Pages: 51 - 57

   

8. Recruitment and entropy decrease during trail formation by foraging ants

   • G. M. Lourenço
   • F. Keesen
   • E. Arashiro

   Research Article 18 October 2019 Pages: 59 - 69

   

9. Limited survival strategy in starving subterranean termite colonies

   • T. Chouvenc

   Research Article 17 October 2019 Pages: 71 - 82

   

10. Viral and fungal pathogens associated with Pneumolaelaps niutirani (Acari: Laelapidae): a mite found in diseased nests of Vespula wasps

    • A. Felden
    • J. W. Baty
    • P. J. Lester

    Research Article 08 November 2019 Pages: 83 - 93

    

11. Differential autogrooming response to the tracheal mite Acarapis woodi by the honey bees Apis cerana and Apis mellifera

    • Y. Sakamoto
    • T. Maeda
    • J. S. Pettis

    Research Article Open access 22 November 2019 Pages: 95 - 102

    

12. Two aggressive neighbours living peacefully: the nesting association between a stingless bee and the bullet ant

    • A. Bordoni
    • G. Mocilnik
    • M. Marconi

    Research Article 30 November 2019 Pages: 103 - 112

    

13. Mating system, population genetics, and phylogeography of the devil’s garden ant, Myrmelachista schumanni, in the Peruvian Amazon

    • P. J. G. Malé
    • E. Youngerman
    • M. E. Frederickson

    Research Article 12 December 2019 Pages: 113 - 125

    

14. Local variation in recombination rates of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) genome among samples from six disparate populations

    • T. DeLory
    • K. Funderburk
    • O. Rueppell

    Research Article 30 November 2019 Pages: 127 - 138

    

15. Emeryia, Xenometra, zoserka: it's a boy, again! The misleading morphology of Cardiocondyla male ants

    • J. Heinze

    Research Article 04 December 2019 Pages: 139 - 146

    

16. Nest structure engineering of the leaf-cutting ant, Acromyrmex landolti, in the semiarid Caatinga biome

    • S. S. Verza
    • R. C. R. G. Gervásio
    • R. M. Mussury

    Research Article 30 November 2019 Pages: 147 - 153

    

17. Multi-year genetic sampling indicates maternal gene flow via colony emigrations in the army ant Eciton burchellii parvispinum

    • T. W. Soare
    • A. Kumar
    • S. O’Donnell

    Research Article 13 December 2019 Pages: 155 - 166

    

18. Color discrimination and preference in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta Buren

    • J. R. Carbaugh
    • R. D. Renthal
    • R. F. Medina

    Research Article 16 December 2019 Pages: 167 - 178

    

19. Disentangling resource acquisition from interspecific behavioral aggression to understand the ecological dominance of a common, widespread temperate forest ant

    • R. J. Warren II
    • J. R. King
    • M. A. Bradford

    Research Article 24 January 2020 Pages: 179 - 187

    

20. Evidence for male genitalia detachment and female mate choice in the Australian stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria

    • T. J. Smith

    Short Communication 20 December 2019 Pages: 189 - 193

    

21. Why do stingless bees (Melipona subnitida) leave their nest with resin loads?

    • K. Harano
    • C. Maia-Silva
    • M. Hrncir

    Short Communication 14 January 2020 Pages: 195 - 200