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You might recall that School of Ants is a citizen science program based at North Carolina State University (earlier post). Last week I received the kit in the mail. Each kit comes with four vials with blue caps, four vials with red caps and one large tube with an orange cap. The red and blue-capped vials come [...] The opportunities to participate in citizen science projects are growing by leaps and bounds. The Network for Citizen Science has a good sampling of the projects, some of which you might find interesting. Projects range from beespotting to banding oystercatchers, and you can devote as little or as much time as you have available. Of course [...] Note: The following post is not for the squeamish. You probably shouldn’t watch the videos right before lunch. Seems like there has been a lot of press lately about the “zombie ants” caused by fungi of the genus Cordyceps. The afflicted ants stagger about before they die, hence the name “zombie.” At the time of death [...] The tiny little rover ants, Brachymyrmex patagonicus, made the news a few weeks ago in an article in the Arizona Daily Star. Actually, it was about Javier Miguelena’s doctoral research on rover ants. During his research, Miguelena found that rover ants need added moisture to do well in the deserts of Arizona. By adding water [...] |
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