Publications of the USM Lab of Social Insect Science:

MacGown J, Baudier KM, Portugal JS. (2026) Updated Records and Confirmed Colonies of Asian Needle Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Brachyponera chinensis) in Mississippi. Midsouth Entomologist. In press.

Lynch C, Baudier KM, Montgomery D, Barrett M (2026). Amount and composition in nutritional geometry: simplex-based tools for choice and mixture experiments. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. In press.

Marley CM, Halsey V, Blackburn L, Stan KD, Baudier KM (2026). Exotic two-spined trap-jaw ants (Odontomachus haematodus) in urban parks of Hattiesburg, Mississippi: Recommended sampling methods and notes on nesting biology. Midsouth Entomologist. 19(1):86-101. 

Prendergrast CT, Harrison JF, Baudier KM (2026). Behavioral note: Variation in reflective flow predicts speed of obstruction circumnavigation on Atta colombica foraging trails. Neotropical Naturalist. 6:1-9.

Robinson KM & Baudier KM (2025) Novel description of stingless bee (Tetragonisca angustula) mobbing defense against newly observed bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) predation. Journal of Insect Behavior, 38(2): 23.

Robinson KM, Mabry ZC, Schonekas H, Robles López KY, Johnson AN, Cipriani G, Nguyen A, Ziemke CH, Baudier KM (2025) Is disturbance stridulation in the passalid beetle Odontotaenius disjunctus a form of social communication?. Insectes Sociaux, 74(4): 513-521. 

Robinson KM, Baudier KM (2024) Stingless bee foragers experience more thermally stressful microclimates but have wider thermal tolerance breadths than other worker subcastes. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. ​12:1405459

Rowe E, Robles López KY, Robinson KM, Baudier KM, Barrett M (2024) Farmed Cricket (Acheta domesticus, Gryllus assimilis, and Gryllodes sigillatus; Orthoptera) Welfare Considerations: Recommendations for Improving Global Practice. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed. 10:1253-1311.

Johnson A, Ziemke CH, Yee DA, Baudier KM (2024) Notes on the Natural History and Climatic Specializations of an Endemic Caribbean Paper Wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Mischocyttarus phthisicus). Caribbean Naturalist. 96:1-8.

Robles López KY, Sosa-Calvo J, Calixto JM, Zoppas de Albuquerque E, Baudier KM (2024). One ant’s trash is another ant’s treasure: Army ant middens are resources for diverse ant assemblages. Biotropica. 56:58–70.

Navas Zuloaga MG, Baudier KM, Fewell JH, Ben-Asher N, Pavlic TP, Kang Y (2023) A Mathematical Model for Flexible Collective Defense: Crisis Response in Social-Insect Colonies. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 87 

O'Donnell S, Baudier KM (2023) Significant colony differences in thermal tolerances and decoupling of high and low critical temperatures in the army ant Eciton burchellii parvispinum. Ecological Entomology 48(5): 622-626.

Ostwald MM, Tretter S, Buellesbach J, Calixto JM, Fewell JH, Gadau J, Baudier KM (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, 193: 261-269.

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

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.