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Have you discovered David Louis Quinn’s Pogolumina website yet? If you are interested in ants, Pogonomyrmex and/or photography, it is a must see. David’s new video Domain of the Thatching Ant, Part I is mesmerizing. Take a look: You know where I’ll be spending all my free time for the next few week, looking through all the [...] It’s a jungle out there for ants. Check out the parasitic wasp, Kollasmosoma sentum, ovipositing in Cataglyphis ibericus ants. In this one Neoneurus vesculus is laying eggs in a Formica cunicularia worker. Finally, Elasmosoma luxemburgense goes after Formica rufibarbis workers. Nice. What do you think of creating videos as a way to bring notice to your scientific work? Reference: Cees [...] 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 [...] Note: The following post is not for the squeamish. You probably shouldn’t watch the videos right before lunch. Seems like there has been a lot of press lately about the “zombie ants” caused by fungi of the genus Cordyceps. The afflicted ants stagger about before they die, hence the name “zombie.” At the time of death [...] |
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