ASU Social Insect Expo

Despite the rain, the ASU Social Insect Expo held at the Desert Botanical Garden was the place to be last night. The room was packed with people of all ages interested in learning more about ants, honey bees and other insects.

The exhibits included some metallic casts of ant nests. This is a fire ant mound.  [...]

ASU Social Insect Expo

If you are going to be in Arizona this month, and you are interested in social insects, plan a trip to the Social Insect Expo at the Desert Botanical Garden on February 20, 2010. According to the program, there will be live colonies of leafcutter ants, honey bees, harvester ants, trap-jaw ants, and more. The [...]

Blog Was Down, Comments Lost

If you tried to get on any of my blogs yesterday, you probably noticed that they were not available. Our hosting server had a major crash. I lost a couple of posts and some comments. If you left comments on late Monday or Tuesday, they are gone, sorry.

I’ll be doing some restoration work today and [...]

Honor An Ant?

Today the theme at Life Photo Meme at Adventures of a Free Range Urban Primate blog is “Honor an Invert.” We love a particular invertebrate group here at Wild About Ants…

…so why are we showing butterflies?

Do these butterflies have anything to tell us about the importance of ants?