The winner of the 2010 Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year award has just been announced and it is Hungarian Bence Matea, winning for his photograph of leafcutter ants.
Working in Costa Rica, Matea found that the leafcutter ants worked only at night. With some creative backlighting with a flash, he managed to get the [...]
Now those are sidewalk ants!
Isn’t is funny how one thing can lead to another? I reviewed a children’s book about animal tongues recently, which got me thinking about ant mouthparts and more particularly, ant “tongues.”
First of all, do ants even have tongues? They don’t have anything that looks like a vertebrate tongue, but they definitely have a structure that [...]
It has been cold and rainy here, so Wordless Wednesday comes from the summer vacation archives.
Does anyone know what this plant is? it was being grown as an ornamental. It has the square stem of a mint.