Posted in Ants, Insects, Paraguay, tagged dinoponera, entomology, Nature on April 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Back in 2002 when I used the Nikon Coolpix 995 for everything, I would occasionally play around with the camera’s very basic video mode. The 995 made small, grainy movies without sound, and most of the videos I took are, well, pretty bad. But the camera had impressive macro abilities, which meant it [...]
Posted in Blogging, Navel-Gazing, Paraguay, Science, tagged Argentina, spiders on January 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My lovely wife Jo-anne has been in South America the last couple weeks doing field research on Argentine ants while I tend the home fires here in Tucson. I hope she finds it in her to forgive me for the post I am about to write.
Earlier today I got an email explaining why I’m [...]
Posted in Ants, Insects, Paraguay, Science, arizona, tagged Biology, entomology, google, google earth on January 20, 2008 | 11 Comments »
So you like insects, but can’t be bothered to get up from your computer to go look for some? Google earth to the rescue!
South of Tucson, Arizona (31°38.097′N 111°03.797′W) I found this lovely aerial image. Visualized from an elevation of about a kilometer and a half, it shows a hill just west of [...]
Posted in Ants, Insects, Paraguay, Science, Taxonomy, tagged fire ants, invasive species, Paraguay, South America on December 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Paraguay may be the world’s most important country. Never mind that it is economically isolated and geopolitically forgettable. Rather, I measure importance by less trivial metrics, and by that of course I mean ants.
Paraguayan ants have changed the world. Many of the world’s worst pest species evolved on the broad plains of the [...]
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