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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 [...] 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 [...] Dorymyrmex bicolor ants are common in Arizona, especially in open areas. In a previous post, I wrote about how to identify them. A few weeks ago I visited an agricultural research station and found almost a monoculture of Dorymyrmex. The first thing you notice about Dorymyrmex bicolor colonies is their neat circular mounds. (Most of these were [...] In an effort to learn more about rover ants, I have been searching for nests. During the summer, we accidentally discovered several colonies when transferring potted plants, so we know they nest in those. We also watched a colony relocate from one nest in the soil to another. It was cool to see the big gush [...] |
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