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Artificial Intelligence and Ants

Are you into programming as well as ants? The you might want to take a look at the Fall 2011 AI Challenge, sponsored by Google. It’s all about, you guessed it, ants! Create artificial intelligence and watch ant colonies fight. It’s win-win.

This video shows you what you need to do:

The contest will end December 18, [...]

What’s Up?

Any ideas what is going on here? I’ll give you a hint:  The photograph was taken in Tucson.

Updates

Just a few updates today.

The October Circus of the Spineless is up at Wanderin’ Weeta. Fun to read, as always.

Also wanted to report two items that turned up almost exactly a year ago. Last week I saw the same kind of silverfish that I found in the opening of harvester ant nests again. I looked [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Carpenter Bee

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For those who want to know more:

1. This is a female carpenter bee visiting a datura flower. Datura flowers are open at night, so the carpenter bee has only a short time in the early morning to use this resource.

2. She dives to the bottom of the flower to drink nectar.

3. Then she wraps herself [...]