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What is there to do when the ants are not very active outside? Read a book about ants, of course. I just finished Bees, Wasps, and Ants: The Indispensable Role of Hymenoptera in Gardens by Eric Grissell, which James Trager had mentioned a few weeks ago (Thank you, James!) Grissell is an expert on wasps [...] In the last post, I looked at carpenter ants overwintering in upstate New York. Here is Chandler, Arizona the temperatures the day this was taken ranged from a low of 45° F (7° C) to a high of 78° F (26° C). What are the ants doing here? Any activity at this Pogonomyrex harvester ant nest? Can you [...] Last week I got a peek at where Camponotus pennsylvanicus carpenter ants spend the winter. The temperatures were hovering around freezing in upstate New York, where I was helping someone spit firewood. When the wood split, occasionally we would find tunnels, hardly more than grooves in the wood, packed with ants. Although the ants look like they [...] Welcome to the January 2012 edition of Circus of the Spineless. Dive with The BlennyWatcher Blog to see emperor shrimp in action. 2. Stop [...] |
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