Ants, aphids and parasitoid wasps: An invisible war shaping our ecosystems
Based on Plata, Fernández de Bobadilla & Tena (2025) – Biological Reviews Table of Contents 1. A powerful mutualism: Ants and hemipterans 2. The enemy in the shadows: Parasitoid wasps 3. A 300-million-year evolutionary story 4. The ants’ arsenal: Organized and efficient defense 5. The wasps’ counterstrategies: Evolutionary ingenuity 6. Not all ants or hemipterans […]
Seminar – The role of cover crops in sustainable agriculture (INAGEA, Mallorca, 2025)
In May 2025, I was invited as a speaker at a scientific seminar organized by INAGEA (Institut d’Investigacions Agroambientals i d’Economia de l’Aigua, University of the Balearic Islands), where experts discussed the key role of cover crops in promoting sustainable agricultural systems. My talk focused on how vegetation cover in citrus orchards influences ant communities […]