Archive for the ‘myrmecology’ Category
Friday, June 19th, 2009
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History has mounted a small new exhibit, Farmers, Warriors, Builders: The Hidden Life of Ants. Michele and her daughter and I took the morning off from Artomatic and checked out it yesterday.
Ants dominate the small-scale world. We may seldom notice them, but ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
I think Antweb is a brilliant resource.
Every ant tells a story. AntWeb provides tools for exploring the diversity and identification of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
These tools have been developed to encourage the study of ants, to facilitate the use of ants in inventory and monitoring programs, and to provide ant taxonomists ...
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Saturday, September 1st, 2007
The Audobon Naturalist Society has an upcoming program about ants:
Antomology: An Introduction to the Natural History of Backyard Ants
Thursday, September 13 (7:30 - 10 pm)
Leader: Jill Swearingen
Explore the underground world of one of our most important, ubiquitous, and overlooked families of insects. We will focus on ants found in the ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
National Geographic Magazine's July issue includes an extensive piece, "Swarm Theory" by Peter Miller.
I think it's an interesting article, and not just because Miller quotes one of my favorite entomologists, Stanford's Deborah Gordon, (no relation) right out of the gate.
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Armyants.org hasn't been updated in years, but there are some creepy photos.
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Lots of pretty pictures at Myrmecos.net, Alex Wild's [tag]insect photography[/tag] website. I direct you specifically the ant section, of course, but I must say I'm quite taken by the [tag]Scarabaeiformia[/tag] gallery as well.
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Japanese Ant Image Database (last updated in 2003, but still darned cool).
I had no idea how many species of ants live in Japan.
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