Journal Articles

O'Donnell, S., & Baudier, K. M. (2023) Significant colony differences in thermal tolerances and decoupling of high and low critical temperatures in the army ant Eciton burchellii parvispinum. Ecological Entomology.

Ostwald, M. M., Tretter, S., Buellesbach, J., Calixto, J. M., Fewell, J. H., Gadau, J., & Baudier, K. M. (2023). Body mass and cuticular hydrocarbon profiles, but not queen number, underlie worker desiccation resistance in a facultatively polygynous harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex californicus). Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 1-9.

Baudier KM*, Ostwald MM*, Calixto JM, Cossio FJ, Fewell JH. (2022) Social factors in heat survival: Multi-queen desert ant colonies have higher and more uniform heat tolerance. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 95(5):379-389. (*Co-first authors)

Baudier KM, Bennett MM, Barrett M, Cossio FJ, Wu R, O’Donnell S, Fewell JH (2022) Soldier neural architecture is flexibly modality-specialized but poorly predicted by repertoire size in the stingless bee Tetragonisca angustula. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 530(4):672-682.

Bennett MM, Baudier KM (2021) The night shift: Nest closure and guarding behaviors in the stingless bee, Tetragonisca angustula. Journal of Insect Behavior. 34: 162-172.

Baudier KM, Pavlic TP, (2020) Incidental interactions among Neotropical army-ant colonies are met with self-organized walls of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News. 30: 251-258.

Baudier KM, Bennett MM, Ostwald MM, Hart S, Pavlic TP, Fewell JH (2020) Age-based changes in kairomone response mediate task partitioning in stingless bee soldiers (Tetragonisca angustula). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 74:125.

Welch L, Baudier KM, Harrison J (2020) Impact of temperature and time of day on leaf intake and ant speed in Atta colombica. Insectes Sociaux. 67:213-219.

Baudier KM, O’Donnell S. (2020). Rain shadow effects predict population differences in thermal tolerance of leaf-cutting ant workers (Atta cephalotes). Biotropica. 52(1): 113-119. 

Baudier KM, Ostwald MM, Grüter C, Segers FH, Roubik DW, Pavlic TP, Pratt SC, Fewell JH (2019). Changing of the guard: mixed specialization and flexibility in nest defense (Tetragonisca angustula). Behavioral Ecology. 30(4): 1041-1049.

Baudier KM, D’Amelio CL, Sulger E, O’Connor MP O’Donnell S (2019) Plastic collective endothermy in a complex animal society (army ant bivouacs: Eciton burchellii parvispinum), Ecography. 42(4): 730-739. [Cover Article]

Baudier KM, S O’Donnell (2018). Complex body size differences in thermal tolerance among army ant workers (Eciton burchellii parvispinum). Journal of Thermal Biology. 78: 277-280.

Ostwald MM, Ruzi SA, Baudier KM (2018) Ambush predation of stingless bees (Tetragonisca angustula) by the solitary-foraging ant Ectatomma tuberculatum. Journal of Insect Behavior, 31(5): 503–509.

Baudier KM, D’Amelio CL, Malhotra R, O'Connor MP, O'Donnell S (2018) Extreme insolation: climatic variation shapes the evolution of thermal tolerance at multiple scales. ​The American Naturalist, 192(3): 347-359.

O'Donnell S, Baudier KM​, Fiocca K, Marenda DR. (​2018) Erythritol ingestion impairs adult reproduction and causes larval mortality in Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies (Diptera: Drosophilidae). Journal of applied entomology, 142 (1-2): 37-42.

Baudier KM, O'Donnell S (2017) Weak links: how colonies counter the social costs of individual variation in thermal physiology. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 22:85-91.

Baudier KM, O’Donnell S (​2016) Structure and thermal biology of subterranean army ant bivouacs in a tropical montane forest (Labidus praedator). Insectes Sociaux, 63(3): 467-476. 

O’Donnell S, Baudier KM, Marenda DR (2016) Non-nutritive polyol sweeteners differ in insecticidal activity when ingested by adult Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Insect Science, 16(1): 1–3

Baudier KM, Mudd AE, Erickson SC, O'Donnell S. (2015) Microhabitat and body size effects on heat tolerance: implications for responses to climate change (army ants: Formicidae, Ecitoninae). Journal of Animal Ecology, 84(5): 1322-1330.

Baudier KM, Kaschock-Marenda SD, Patel N, Diangelus KL, O'Donnell S, Marenda DR. (2014) Erythritol, a non-nutritive sugar alcohol sweetener and the main component of Truvia®, is a palatable ingested insecticide. PLoS ONE, 9(6): e98949.

Conference Proceedings

​Baudier KM, Pavlic TP (2022) Multi-level instrumentation of bivouac thermoregulation: current methods and future directions. Artificial Life and Robotics. 27:308–315.

Strickland LG, Baudier KM, Bowers KP, Pavlic TP, Pippin CP (​2019) Bio-inspired role allocation of  heterogeneous teams in a site defense task, ​Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems. 9:139-151

Book Chapters

Baudier KM (2019). Brood Stimulation Hypothesis. In Encyclopedia of Social Insects, ed. Starr CK. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International. [Download a PDF here]