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Suppose you were running one day and you came to a barrier across your path. What would you do? Would you stop, assess the height and then go under if you could? Cataglyphis is a species of ant that runs on the hot sands during the day. Individual ants look for food and when they find [...] In addition to the Crematogaster from the last post, we encountered a number of interesting ants last weekend. Check out the lovely Formica. This worker was climbing up and down grass stalks. There were enough that I was able to follow them back to their nest. The workers were quite delicate for Formica ants. Look at those antennae! The nest entrance [...] We have some amazing ants in Arizona. People always comment on the tiny ants that run rapidly along sidewalks in great numbers. Here’s a very amateur video in real time, to give you an idea of their speed at about 90 degrees F. I particularly enjoy the traffic noises in the second part. I thought the revving [...] Ant-related Citizen Science Project If you live in the San Francisco area and are interested in citizen science, you might want to check into the California Academy of Science’s Bay Area Ant Survey. First you need to request an ant collecting kit from the Naturalist Center (see information at the link above). [...] |
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