09.00-09.30 Keynote Speaker III: Global pest ants and their management:

current status and future challenges by Dr. Scotty Yang, Kyoto University, Japan

09.30-10.00 Keynote Speaker IV: Ants in Thailand: the Role of Testing and

Product Management by Dr. Uruyakorn Chansang

10.00 -10.30 Coffee break

10.30-12.00 Session III: Ant community and structure

Moderator: Dr. Mingkwan Nipitwattanaphon

Secretary: Miss Oraya Burakrai

10.30 – 10.45 Ants under pressure: community structure and diversity of Formiciade on a tropical mountain peak in times of climate change by Dirk Mezger and Martin Pfeiffer

10.45 – 11.00 The ant community structure in different habitats in Yangmingshan National Park, Taiwan by Feng-Chuan Hsu, Lien-Siang Chou, Chung-Chi Lin

11.00 – 11.15 Biology of the Oriental amblyoponine ant, Myopopone castanea by Fuminori Ito

11.15 – 11.30 Characterization and seasonal variation of nest architecture in an Indian ant by Kushankur Bhattacharyya and Sumana Annagiri

11.30 – 11.45 Livestock Grazing Affects Ant and Epigeal Arthropod Community Structure in Trans-Himalayas by Pronoy Baidya, Jalmesh Karapurkar, Shamik Roy and Sumanta Bagchi

11.45 – 12.00 The expansion dynamics of yellow crazy ants (Anoplolepis gracilipes) on Lang Tengah island by Jason Gan

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00-15.00 Session V: Biodiversity and distribution of ants

Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Decha Wiwatwittaya

Secretary: Miss Wannapa Keawnin

13.00 – 13.15 Distribution patterns of ant assemblages across an elevation gradient of fraser’s hill forest, Malaysia by Nurul Ashikin Abdullah

13.15 – 13.30 Ants diversity and compositional variation in relation to the forest regeneration in a production forest of Peninsular Malaysia by Nur Zati Akma Mustafa

13.30 – 13.45 How much does a tropical forest elevational gradient contribute to biodiversity? Insights from the ant communities of Mt. Wilhelm by Petr Klimes, Ondrej Mottl, Tom Maurice Fayle, Justine Jacquemin, Jimmy Moses, Jerome Orivel, Vojtech Novotny and Maurice Leponce

13.45 – 14.00 Diversity of worker ants and frequency of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) occurrence in Solanum melongena L. fields at three localities in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka by R.K.S Dias, H.V.A.S. Koshila, R.P. Wanigatunge and P. Edirisinghe

14.00 – 14.15 Diversity, Nesting Habits and Socioecology of the Spiny Ant

(Genus Polyrhachis F. Smith) in the Lower Vegetation of

Khaeng Krachan National Park, Phetchaburi Province, Thailand by Nawee Non-anant

14.15 – 14.30 Effect of visual landmarks on the relocation of an Indian ant by Snigdha Mukhopadhyay and Sumana Annagiri

14.30 – 14.45 Investigating distribution and diversity of invasive ant species in port areas and the largest wholesale market in Thailand by Charee Sornsa, Sasitorn Hasin and Phuvasa Chanonmuang

14.45 – 15.00 Integrative survey for ant diversity in Biological Education and Research Forest of Universitas Andalas, Indonesia: Exhaustive deployment of several ant by Henny Herwina, Rijal Satria, Yaherwandi, Yositaka Sakamaki, Mairawita, Diyona Putri, Ahmad Efendi, Yusuke Kusuhata, Muhammad N. Janra, Junichi Kojima

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-16.30 Session VI: Biology of Ant

Moderator: Dr. Wendy Wang

Secretary: Miss Miss Piyachat Raocharoen

15.30 – 15.45 Foraging behaviors of the Japanese pavement ant (Tetramorium tsushimae) in rabbit cadavers by Sang-Hyun Park and Tae-Young Moon

15.45 – 16.00 Distribution and food preference of invasive ant species. Anoplolepis gracilipes Smith, 1857 (Yellow crazy ant) at Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve, Nakhon Ratchasima Province by Kirati Binsan, Sasitorn Hasin and Phuvasa Chanonmeang

16.00 – 16.15 Settlement behavior of new queens and rapid new colony of weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina F. Formicidae) by Tipakhon Phusakhon, Decha Wiwatwitaya and Wattanachai Thasen

16.15 – 16.30 Ecological impacts of rubber plantation on ground and arboreal ants of Xishuangbanna, southwest China by Pitoon Kongnoo, Mark Jun M. Alcantara, and Akihiro Nakamura

16.30-16.45 Summary and Closing

Ant Course

10.00-12.00 Part I: Basic knowledge of ants, collecting and preserving ants

13.00-16.00 Part II: How to identify common ants for ordinary people