What’s at the Desert Botanical Garden today?
Ants, of course!
What a perfect way to unwind from a stressful week.
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What do you think? Am I being too picky here? I just got a children’s book at the library about ants that I found, well, underwhelming to say the least. The lukewarm feelings start at the cover. Aren’t those jaws scary? Is this the perfect message for a child interested in ants? How about the title? Would [...] Remember the rover ants from sweet tooth ants and the praying mantid encounter? I don’t think I have introduced you to them properly. The “dark rover ants” (or simply “rover ants”), Brachymyrmex patagonicus, are tiny ants originally found in South America, interestingly from the same region as some of the other successful invaders: fire and Argentine [...] The winner of the 2010 Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year award has just been announced and it is Hungarian Bence Matea, winning for his photograph of leafcutter ants. Working in Costa Rica, Matea found that the leafcutter ants worked only at night. With some creative backlighting with a flash, he managed to get the [...] |
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