Frantisek X. Pulkrabek joined our laboratory already in winter, as a new ant-specialist. His Bachelor thesis will focus on the diversity and feeding preferences of ants on South Bohemian peat-bogs.

Frantisek is really well (by well, I mean massively well) organised person, who loves his space 🙂 He enjoys Czech ants more than those from Papua New Guinea, as he realised after the first trip to there as a part of the course of tropical ecology in summer 2023.

In his free time he plays a guitar, and as far as we know now, he is super skilled handy man.

Top: Frantisek and our ex-student Jan Lenc collecting ants. Below from left to right: Frantisek explaining to us the sampling protocol he designed. Off we go for ant hunt. Hurray, some ants coming to Katka’s baits after 10 minutes already, picking the sweetest baits.