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Researchers recently discovered a way to control cane toads, an introduced pest, in Australia: put out cat food for the meat ants, Iridomyrmex reburrus. Sound a bit far fetched? It turns out that when scientists scattered cat food along the banks of cane toad-infested ponds, the meat ants would come to the shore to pick it [...] Any ideas what the yellow dots are on this Passiflora leaf? Are insects involved?
It turns out that insects are part of the story, but probably not in the way that you might think.
This is one of the insect characters, the larva of a Heliconius butterfly. [...] The theme today for Life Photo Meme at Adventures of a Free Range Urban Primate blog is “ancient.” If you spend time observing scorpions, you get the sense that these creatures have been around for eons. They seem to be the epitome of the word ancient. (Sorry about the focus, I tend to stand too far away [...] After posting photographs of butterflies last week, I decided to take a deeper look into the relationships between ants and blue butterflies. There’s been a lot of new discoveries in this area over the last decade or so. Butterflies of the family Lycaenidae, commonly referred to as blues, hairstreaks and coppers, have been known to have [...] |
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