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Honey or honey pot ants is a common name of a number of unrelated species with similar habits. Any idea what the yellow grape-like objects are hanging from the nest? The honey ants are the camels of the ant family. They live in dry areas throughout the world, but particularly the deserts of Australia, where food and [...] We have been inspired by books lately. In the last post, our inspiration was an adult-level book about katydids. Today it is the children’s picture book Little Black Ant on Park Street by Janet Halfmann and Illustrated by Kathleen Rietz. The book is the next installment in the excellent Smithsonian’s Backyard series. I reviewed [...] Aren’t different kinds of ants supposed to fight? Why are these red and black ants are working together? Mark Moffett shows us why in this video entitled Pirates of the Sagehen, taken at UC Berkeley’s Sagehen Creek Field Station.
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