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From the archives (upstate New York): This summer I stumbled upon a sweat bee nest while moving some old boards. The nest was between two boards and this is what it looked like when I lifted the top one off. (Sweat bees, family Halictidae, are often metallic, shiny green or blue.) Sweat bees vary from solitary to [...] From the photo archives: You have probably heard all about the relationship of ants and peony flower buds. Peonies (Paeonia sp.) are small perennial shrubs that produce large, lovely flowers in the spring. The flower buds produce nectar via extrafloral nectaries, which attract ants. The ants chase off potential herbivores until the buds open. A simple story, [...] As you probably know, spiders and birds aren’t the only ones who know how to weave. Weaver ants (mostly ants of the genus Oecophylla) are named because the worker ants use silk produced by their larvae to sew or weave together leaves in trees to make a nest to live in. Photo by Robin [...] Related to the last post about Southern fire ants, have you seen The Fire Ants by Walter R. Tschinkel? You would think that a book that is over 700 pages long about a single topic, and fire ants at that, would be pretty dreadful reading. Surprise! The Fire Ants has all the elements of a [...] |
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