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Stories of Ants

October 28, 2009 by myrmecos

I’m busy today with lab work. But if you need an ant blog fix, let me point you in the direction of “Historias de Hormigas” (“Stories of Ants”). It’s a Spanish blog by José María Gómez Durán, and the current entry is an amazing series of action shots documenting an ant-hunting Crabronid wasp.

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Posted in Ants, Blogging, Insect Links | 4 Comments

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on October 28, 2009 at 2:54 pm Kai

I’ve heard of Braconid wasps but /never/ of Crabonids!

~Kai
on October 28, 2009 at 2:57 pm myrmecos

Crabronidae = most of the former Sphecidae

(Sphecidae in the old sense is paraphyletic wrt bees…)
on October 29, 2009 at 7:55 am James C. Trager

Amazing! Of all the ants on which to prey, the foul-tasting Tapinoma — Ptooey!

Reminds me of another underutilized host or prey resource for a hymenopteran I learned about recently, Braconidae: Elasmosoma on Formica. http://bugguide.net/node/view/280158

And isn’t there a group that uses Pogonomyrmex, also?
on October 29, 2009 at 2:04 pm José María Gómez Durán

Not far from Tracheliodes I saw this insect hovering over a line of Lasius sp on a wall. It could stay completely still in the air for several minutes, at a distance less than 1 cm from the ants:
http://picasaweb.google.es/josemarygd/ZoologyAlbum#5398104725677141538