“From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm”

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 ...

Ontogeny’s Friday Ant Zen

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]