From the beginning to the end of MATA, we have sampled 13 ants species distributed from the Mediterranean region to northern Scandinavia, and studied several aspects of their temperature tolerance. First, we explored how their heat-tolerance and acclimation potential (i.e. how well they can acclimate to warmer temperatures) related to their current distribution (Willot et al., 2022), in order to understand the link between heat-tolerance and habitat colonisation in insects. Doing so, we discovered a phenomenon of "metabolic compensation", meaning that the metabolism of northern species is specifically optimized to work faster at cooler temperatures, giving them and edge over competitors in temperate climates (Willot et al., 2023, BioRxv). However, we also point out that this comes at a costs - these species suffer greater risks of heat-induce damages and lose metabolic performance sooner at warm temperatures, meaning they can easily be outcompeted and displaced north as the climates warms up. Finally, we also explored insect mitochondrial resilience to low temperatures, and how cold episodes such as temperate winter might affect the energetic metabolism of invading tropical insects using several species of Drosophila flies as models (Jørgensen et al., 2023). We show that the sensitivity of mitochondrial metabolism to temperature is tightly correlated with the onset of cold-induced coma, meaning that in warm-adapted species, mitochondrial failure underpins poor cold-tolerance. These results have been published or are currently under review in peer-reviewed journals. They have been disseminated through oral presentations in 5 international congresses dedicated to insect sciences and cold-blooded animals' physiology spawning from 2021 to 2023. They have further been used as support for the dissemination of insect physiology science in 2 editions of the Sciences is Wonderful event to school and high-school pupils, and have been included in blogs aimed at distributing accessible sciences to the public.