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Cover: With large eyes, razor-sharp mandibles and a solitary foraging style, bull ants (genus Myrmecia) are oddities in the ant world. Of two closely related sympatric species in Australia, one is diurnal and the other nocturnal. Jayatilaka and colleagues (pp. 2730-2738) investigated whether differences in temperature tolerance restrict their activity period. This is clearly not the case: both ants tolerate higher temperatures than they naturally encounter, and daily and seasonal foraging patterns are affected by temperature only in the diurnal ant. Thermal biology does not drive temporal niche partitioning in these ants, but temperature has varied effects even amongst congeneric species. Photo credit: A. Narendra. - PDF Icon PDF LinkTable of contents
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