Kaitlin Baudier

Bullet ant on a leaf with three stingless bees attacking

Bullet ant investigating stingless bee nest entrance tube while the head of a guard bee peaks out to monitor the intruder from inside

Bullet ant fending off one stingless bee while two hover nearby ready to attack

Stingless bee biting bullet ant antennae

Hot off the press natural history note!
"Novel Description of Stingless Bee (Tetragonisca angustula) Mobbing Defense Against Newly Observed Bullet Ant (Paraponera clavata) Predation"
Read it here for free: rdcu.be/eC8es

at the 2025 Beckman Symposium with the first two Beckman Scholars from the state of Mississippi #USM #TTT #SouthernMiss

If you'll be at the ESA Eastern Branch Meeting starting this weekend, two scientists featured in this story will participate in a symposium titled "Impact of Federal Dismissals and Disruptions on Entomology and Entomologists": esa.confex.com/esa/2025eb/m...

Is disturbance stridulation in the passalid beetle Odontotaenius disjunctus a form of social communication? - Insectes Sociaux Among insects, stridulation (the rubbing of body parts to generate sound) is an important component of many essential behaviors including courtship, predator deterrence, and social recruitment. The su...

Congratulations to @bug-biologist.bsky.social for publishing her work on Bess beetle stridulation in @insectessociaux.bsky.social
This was an Animal Behavior course project she came up with and led her classmates to complete as a team back in 2023. doi.org/10.1007/s000...