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You can tell a lot about a society by what its members throw away. Take these harvester ants, for example. Your eye might be attracted by the flurry of activity around the nest entrance. It does pay to look elsewhere, though. Here’s the trash heap. Looks like these ants have been gathering a lot of Isopods, otherwise known as [...] Are any of you signed up for the 2011 Ant Course? It is going to be held at the American Museum of Natural History’s Southwestern Research Station near Portal, Arizona this year, or at least it was supposed to be. You see, there is a big fire burning in southeastern Arizona right now. They had [...] I often get questions about raising ants. How do you keep a colony disease-free and growing in an artificial nest? One of the most common ways to keep ants is in a glass test tube nest. The advantages are that glass tubes are easy to clean, supply the proper moisture, convenient to transport and can grow [...] “Look at that ant,” she said. It’s not an ant, though. Ants have six legs, not eight. And ants sure don’t have those iridescent chelicerae in front. Or the row of eyes right above the chelicerae. It’s a jumping spider, apparently Myrmarachne formicaria. Look how the spider even holds its palps under the chelicerae to help with the disguise. This [...] |
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