Published Journal Articles

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.

Published 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]

Dissertation

Baudier KM (2017) Microhabitat and elevational patterns in thermal tolerance and thermoregulation of Neotropical army ants (Formicidae: Dorylinae) Doctoral dissertation. Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Submitted Manuscripts

​​Prendergast CT, Harrison JF, Baudier KM (Submitted) Variation in reflective flow and forager navigation explain speed of obstruction circumnavigation on Atta colombica foraging trails.


* Co-first-authors