Great to see Alex back, and with such a beautiful shot. I had a little post ready, so I figured I would go ahead and put it up. Maybe it will give Alex a little bit more time to recuperate after what sounds like a tough journey back. One of the things I have discovered [...]
Archive for March, 2009
A new ant with eyespots for defense?
Posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Estoy de vuelta
Posted in Blogging, tagged Argentina, pampas grass, Photography on March 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Was Argentina fabulous? Yes. Am I exhausted after a sleepless overnight flight? Also. I’ll try to think of some things to write about the trip once I’m lucid. In the meantime I’d like to thank guest bloggers Scott and Eli for elevating the literary standards of the myrmecos blog during my absence. photo details: Canon [...]
Sunday Night Movie: Beaker Sings
Posted in fun, tagged beaker, muppets on March 29, 2009 | Comments Off
Friday Beetle Blogging: Nemognatha Blister Beetles
Posted in beetles, tagged entomology, Insects, meloidae, Photography on March 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Some of the oddest blister beetles in western North America are in the genus Nemognatha. Their mouthparts have become elongate to form a proboscis- a common trait among other groups of insects- but rare among the beetles. They are commonly seen on flowers feeding on nectar. photo details: Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens on [...]
Waste not, want not
Posted in Ants on March 26, 2009 | 9 Comments »
What do arboreal ants eat? This is not such an easy question to answer as one might think. Nitrogen, vital for building proteins, is typically in short supply in the tops of trees. Ants as a group are often viewed as scavengers, getting nitrogen from dead arthropods that they find in the environment. But dead arthropods in the canopy [...]
Procryptocerus mayri
Posted in Ants, Venezuela, tagged Ants, entomology, Nature, procryptocerus on March 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
photo details: Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens on a Canon EOS 20D ISO 100, 1/250 sec, f/13, flash diffused through tracing paper
Anting the Solomons, Part III
Posted in Uncategorized on March 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
…We had reached the top village, we had sifted great quantities of Wasmannia-free leaf litter, and we had learned the local lore about the Kakamora dwarf people that lived in the forest and granted magical powers to those with the prowess to catch one. Meanwhile, the full week of wet shoes and socks was causing [...]
Sunday Night Movie: How Ants Communicate
Posted in Ants, Science, tagged Ants, behavior, formicidae, movie on March 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
From the recent documentary Ants: Nature’s Secret Power, a glimpse of how researchers study ant behavior in the lab:
One of these things is not like the others
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Cephalotes pusillus is ever-present in cerrado. In fact, I have never encountered another ant that is so abundant in a natural system, tropical or temperate. They are generalist nesters and can be found in almost every piece of standing dead-wood and many live trees. The workers are particularly robust, even for Cephalotes, and will often bulldoze their way to foods already [...]
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