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Fire ants. --- Imported fire ant --- Solenopsis --- Ants --- Formicidae --- identification. --- identification --- Biogeography --- Symbiosis --- social behaviour --- biological development --- Biological competition --- Venoms --- medicinal properties --- Biological control agents --- population density --- Insect control

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Ants are a ubiquitous, highly diverse, and ecologically dominant faunal group. They represent a large proportion of global terrestrial faunal biomass and play key ecological roles as soil engineers, predators, and re-cyclers of nutrients. They have particularly important interactions with plants as defenders against herbivores, as seed dispersers, and as seed predators. One downside to the ecological importance of ants is that they feature on the list of the world’s worst invasive species. Ants have also been important for science as model organisms for studies of diversity, biogeography, and community ecology. Despite such importance, ants remain remarkably understudied. A large proportion of species are undescribed, the biogeographic histories of most taxa remain poorly known, and we have a limited understanding of spatial patterns of diversity and composition, along with the processes driving them. The papers in this Special Issue collectively address many of the most pressing questions relating to ant diversity. What is the level of ant diversity? What is the origin of this diversity, and how is it distributed at different spatial scales? What are the roles of niche partitioning and competition as regulators of local diversity? How do ants affect the ecosystems within which they occur? The answers to these questions provide valuable insights not just for ants, but for biodiversity more generally.

ant diversity --- cryptic species --- morphospecies --- species delimitation --- sympatric association --- endosymbiont --- ant --- vertical transmission --- biogeography --- ancestral state reconstruction --- phylogeny --- ants --- community structure --- physiology --- interactions --- temperature --- behavioral interactions --- coexistence --- co-occurrence --- competitive exclusion --- dominance --- Formicidae --- scale --- Dolichoderinae --- species distribution models --- climatic gradients --- wet tropics --- climate change --- invasion ecology --- invasive species --- red imported fire ant --- commensalism --- gopher tortoise --- diversity --- conservation --- burrow commensal --- soil arthropods --- pitfall --- bait --- turnover --- food specialisation --- stratification --- sampling methods --- hypogaeic --- species richness --- species occurrence --- endemic species --- distribution ranges --- dispersal routes --- centre of origin --- refugium areas --- antbird --- army ant --- biodiversity --- biological indicator --- deforestation --- habitat fragmentation --- myrmecophiles --- mimicry --- species interactions --- tropics --- biological invasions --- species checklist --- urban ecology --- n/a

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A beautifully illustrated look at the lives and mind-boggling behaviors of insects: What Insects Do, and Why. It takes you on an unforgettable tour of the insect world, presenting these amazing creatures as you have never seen them before. This stunningly illustrated guide explores how insects live, ranging from elegant displays of courtship to brutal acts of predation, and provides insights into the marvelous diversity of insects all around us. Along the way, Ross Piper discusses insect evolution, reproduction and life cycles, feeding strategies, defenses, sociality, parasite-host interactions, human impacts on insects, and more.

Animals. --- Animal kingdom --- Beasts --- Fauna --- Native animals --- Native fauna --- Wild animals --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Human-animal relationships --- Zoology --- Ant. --- Antlion. --- Aphid. --- Arachnocampa. --- Argentine ant. --- Army ant. --- Arthropod eye. --- Attelabidae. --- Bed bug. --- Bee. --- Beetle. --- Beewolf. --- Blister beetle. --- Bombardier beetle. --- Bombyliidae. --- Botfly. --- Braconidae. --- Brood (honey bee). --- Caddisfly. --- Calliphoridae. --- Caterpillar. --- Ceratopogonidae. --- Click beetle. --- Cuckoo bee. --- Cuckoo wasp. --- Damselfly. --- Dinocampus coccinellae. --- Dragonfly. --- Drosophila melanogaster. --- Dung beetle. --- Earthworm. --- Emerald cockroach wasp. --- Encyrtidae. --- Entomology. --- European beewolf. --- Fig wasp. --- Fire ant. --- Flatworm. --- Flea beetle. --- Froghopper. --- Fungus gnat. --- Fungus. --- Gall wasp. --- Glowworm. --- Ground beetle. --- Hemiptera. --- Honey bee. --- Hunting wasp. --- Hymenoptera. --- Ichneumonidae. --- Insect repellent. --- Insect trap. --- Insect wing. --- Insect. --- Larva. --- Leaf-mimic katydid. --- Leafcutter ant. --- Leafhopper. --- Lepidoptera. --- Longhorn beetle. --- Louse. --- Mayfly. --- Mealybug. --- Millipede. --- Mole cricket. --- Mutillidae. --- Myrmelachista schumanni. --- Nematode. --- Nematomorpha. --- Nemopteridae. --- Opiliones. --- Owlfly. --- Parasitism. --- Parasitoid wasp. --- Parasitoid. --- Pesticide. --- Phasmatodea. --- Pheromone. --- Phragmosis. --- Platygastridae. --- Plecoptera. --- Pupa. --- Pyrophorus nyctophanus. --- Rasberry crazy ant. --- Ricinulei. --- Rove beetle. --- Sapsucker. --- Scale insect. --- Scarabaeidae. --- Spermatophore. --- Spider. --- Stalk-eyed fly. --- Strepsiptera. --- Termite. --- Tiger beetle. --- Tsetse fly. --- Warble fly. --- Wasp. --- Weevil. --- Worker bee.