Archive for the ‘ants’ 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, September 18th, 2008
Thanks a lot, MSNBC. I hadn't had any coffee when I saw their headline, "Strange 'ant from Mars' discovered
Blind, subterranean predator likely a descendant of Earth's first ants".
A newly discovered species of a blind, subterranean predator — dubbed the "Ant from Mars" — is likely a descendant of one ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
On a recent trip to the Central Florida Zoo, I ventured into the Massey Insect Zoo. I can't believe I almost missed the installation of giant ants on the pipe near the high ceiling:
It was really great. How big are the ants? Scroll down on this page and you can ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
A plaster mold of an anthill courtesy of Sean.
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
This week on Nova: Master of the Killer Ants.
Although known for their ruthless aggression, driver ants also have a beneficial side. This is traditionally exploited by the Mofu people of northern Cameroon, who call the local species of red driver ants jaglavak.
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"Master of the Killer Ants" tells the story ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Yesterday's New York Times Science section has a lengthy article that looks at some of the recent work by mathematical biologists Daniel Grunbaum and Iain Couzin on the instinct to swarm.
If you have ever observed [tag]ants[/tag] marching in and out of a nest, you might have been reminded of ...
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
Myrmecos.net brings us this awesome action photo of army ants preying on a queen they've dragged out of a colony they're raiding.
[link via Matt Dowling's Blog, Ontogeny]
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
I was reading a news item about Texas A and M University's Imported [tag]Fire Ant Research and Management Project[/tag] in and optimistically titled piece in the Mississippi Picayune Item: "Red fire ants, long a worry to farmers and ranchers, may have met their match."
It's an interesting piece about the possibility ...
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