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Remember the post a few weeks back showing the snail shells in the harvester ant midden? Let’s take a little closer look at what kinds of objects harvester ants collect and put on their mounds. At first glance a harvester ant mound looks a bit like a pile of rubble. If you start to study the mound, [...] You can tell a lot about a society by examining what its members throw away. For example, here’s the trash heap or midden of a Pogonomyrmex colony. Shell collection? Water condensation devices? Taste for escargot? Garlic and butter anyone? Once again, our post has been inspired by a children’s book. This time it is Bugs and Bugsicles: Insects in the Winter by Amy S. Hansen and Robert C. Kray (illustrator). The authors follow different insects, including pavement ants, as they prepare for winter. I posted a review of this book at Wrapped In Foil [...] When we are not doing experiments, my son and I have been reading Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence by James R. Gould and Carol Grant Gould. We have enjoyed the book so far. It is not an easy read, but the stories of the different animals are fascinating. The book is [...] |
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