|
||||
 |
Isn’t is funny how one thing can lead to another? I reviewed a children’s book about animal tongues recently, which got me thinking about ant mouthparts and more particularly, ant “tongues.” First of all, do ants even have tongues? They don’t have anything that looks like a vertebrate tongue, but they definitely have a structure that [...] Have you heard the buzz about the fungus-gardening ant, Mycocepurus smithii? Apparently the queens can crank out workers and new queens without fertilization of the eggs. Genetic studies have shown the workers to be clones of their queen mother. No males have ever been found in nature, and laboratory colonies can’t be induced to make [...] If you tried to get on any of my blogs yesterday, you probably noticed that they were not available. Our hosting server had a major crash. I lost a couple of posts and some comments. If you left comments on late Monday or Tuesday, they are gone, sorry. I’ll be doing some restoration work today and [...] After posting photographs of butterflies last week, I decided to take a deeper look into the relationships between ants and blue butterflies. There’s been a lot of new discoveries in this area over the last decade or so. Butterflies of the family Lycaenidae, commonly referred to as blues, hairstreaks and coppers, have been known to have [...] |
|
||
|
Copyright © 2010 Wild About Ants - All Rights Reserved |
||||