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Do you get the BBC TV channel? You might want to look around to see if Natural World: Empire of the Desert Ants is playing. It looks fabulous! (or if you live in the U.K., try this link. It doesn’t work in the U.S.) Cinematographer/photographer John Brown spent 150 days in the Arizona desert filming honeypot [...] If you happen across a worker ant of Pachycondyla tarsata (previously known as Paltothyreus tarsatus), you will have no need to look them up in a book to identify them. You will probably be able to tell what kind of ant they are by their foul odor. The smell they produce is so bad that [...] Last month while I was in Denver, I noticed some ants in my in-laws front yard. As usual, I had about two minutes to watch them. I noticed a couple of workers struggling with something. It looked like a queen ant with deformed wings. The workers let it go and it ran off. At which point my brother-in-law asked me [...] If you are looking for a place to study harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex), I have a suggestion. At the Running Deer Natural Area in Fort Collins, Colorado, we saw numerous active mounds last month. Most of them are conveniently located near walking trails. Looked like the perfect place to study ants to me. Not bad views either. |
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