Cole, B.J. 1994. Nest architecture in the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Cresson). Insectes Sociaux 41:401-410. pdf

Wiernasz, D.C., J. Yencharis, B.J. Cole. 1995. Size and mating success in males of the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. The Journal of Insect Behavior 8(4): 523-531. pdf

Wiernasz, D.C. and B.J. Cole. 1995. Spatial distribution of Pogonomyrmex occidentalis: recruitment, mortality and overdispersion. The Journal of Animal Ecology 64: 519-527. pdf

Cole, B.J. and D.C. Wiernasz. 1997. Inbreeding and the population structure of a lek-mating ant species, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 40(2):79-86. pdf

Abell, A., B.J. Cole, R. Reyes and D.C. Wiernasz. 1999. Sexual selection on body size and shape in the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. Evolution 53(2): 535-545. pdf

Cole, B.J. and D.C. Wiernasz. 1999. The selective advantage of low relatedness: growth in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. Science 285(5429): 891-893. pdf

Cole, B.J. and D.C. Wiernasz. 2000. The nature of ant colony success. Science 287:1363B. pdf

Cole, B.J. and D.C. Wiernasz. 2000. Size and reproduction in the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. Insectes Sociaux. 47:249-255. pdf

Cole, B.J., K. Haight and D.C. Wiernasz. 2001. The spatial distribution of Myrmecocystus mexicanus: association with Pogonomyrmex occidentalis Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 94(1):59-63. pdf

Wiernasz, D.C., A. Sater, A. Abell, and B.J. Cole. 2001. Male size, sperm transfer, and colony fitness in the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. Evolution 55:324-329. pdf

Billick, I., D.C. Wiernasz and B.J. Cole. 2001. Recruitment in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis : effects of experimental removal. Oecologia, 129 (2): 228-233. pdf

Cole, B.J. and D. C. Wiernasz. 2002. Recruitment limitation and population density in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. Ecology 83(5):1433-1442. pdf

Wiernasz, D.C. and B.J. Cole 2003. Queen size mediates queen survival and colony fitness in harvester ants. Evolution 57 (9): 2179-2183. pdf

Wiernasz, D.C., C. Perroni, B.J. Cole. 2004. Polyandry and fitness in the western harvester ant Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. Molecular Ecology 13: 1601-1606. pdf

Billick, I., B. Cole, D.C. Wiernasz. 2004. The scale of recruitment limitation in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 97 (4):738-742. pdf

Diane C. Wiernasz, Jessica Hines, Dara G. Parker, Blaine J. Cole. 2008. Mating for variety increases foraging activity in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. Molecular Ecology 17:1137-1144. pdf

Blaine J. Cole, Rebecca Edwards, Carter Tate Holbrook, Lindsey Holm, Joslin Heyward, Diane C. Wiernasz. 2008. Does foraging activity affect foraging success in the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Cresson) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)? Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 101(1):272-276. pdf

Cole, B.J. 2009. The ecological setting of social evolution: the demography of ant populations. Chapter for: New frontiers in Behavioral Ecology-From Gene to Society. (J. Fewell, J. Gadau, eds.) Harvard Univ. Press. pp. 74-104. Including appendix. pdf

Diane C. Wiernasz and Blaine J. Cole. 2009. Dioecy and the evolution of sex ratios in ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 209:2125-2132. pdf

Blaine J. Cole, Adrian A. Smith, Zachary J. Huber, Diane C. Wiernasz. 2010. The structure of foraging activity in colonies of the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. Behavioral Ecology, 21(2): 337-342. pdf

Wiernasz, D.C. and B.J. Cole. 2010. Patriline shifting leads to apparent genetic caste determination in harvester ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. track 2, 107(29): 12958-12962. pdf

Lubertazzi, D., D.C. Wiernasz and B.J. Cole. 2013. Competitive advantages of early onset foraging in Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 106(1):72-78. pdf

Wiernasz, D.C. B.A. Cole and B.J. Cole. 2014 . Defending the nest: variation in the alarm aggression response and nest mound damage in the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex occidentalis. Insectes Sociaux 61:273-279. pdf

Wiernasz D.C., B. J. Cole and B. A. Cole. 2014. Maternal and paternal influences on mating frequency in harvester ants. Animal Behaviour 97:87-94. pdf

Wiernasz, D.C. and B.J. Cole. 2018. Offspring size and reproductive allocation in harvester ants. American Naturalist 191(1):120-134. pdf

Cole, B.J. and D.C Wiernasz. 2021. Seed-Harvesting Ants. In: The Encyclopedia of Social Insects. C Starr (ed). This chapter is available by request, but we cannot post a link to the pdf of the article.

Cole, Blaine J., Cole, B. J., Jordan, D., LaCour-Roy, M., O’Fallon, S., Manaker, L., Ternest, J. J., Askew, M., Garey, D., and Wiernasz, D. C. 2022. The benefits of being big and diverse: early colony survival in harvester ants. Ecology 00( 00):e03556. 10.1002/ecy.3556 PDF. This is a pdf of the accepted version of the paper rather than the published version. Ecology (Wiley) is a stickler about this. This pdf contains the paper and all supplemental files and figures. pdf

Wiernasz, Diane C. and Blaine J. Cole. 2022. The ontogeny of selection on genetic diversity in harvester ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 289:20220496. pdf

Cole, B.J., D.Lubertazzi, D.C. Wiernasz. 2025. Variation in behavioral tempo, not thermal sensitivity, determines the onset of foraging in ant colonies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 79: 23. https://rdcu.be/d7RMs

Wiernasz, Diane C. and Blaine J. Cole. 2025. Ant queen longevity in the field. Insectes Sociaux. June 10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-025-01044-y For pdf: https://rdcu.be/eqrmA