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Brittlebush Ants

Dorymyrmex on brittlebush

Ant Course August 2010

Want to learn more about ants? A lot more?

California Academy of Sciences offers an ant course every year. This year it will be held August 15 – 25 at the Danum Valley Field Centre, Sabah Borneo. The course is for “systematists, ecologists, behaviorists, conservation biologists, and other biologists whose research responsibilities require a greater [...]

Aster Ants

Tiny Brachymyrmex ants visiting asters.

Southern Fire Ant

In the previous posts about the silverfish and the rove beetles, I mentioned that I found the insects in native fire ant nests. The native fire ant that is extremely common in Arizona is the southern fire ant, Solenopsis xyloni.

Like other fire ants, the southern fire ant has a clubbed antenna and two nodes in [...]