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Did you know that today is International Rock Flipping Day? The idea is to go outside, flip over a few rocks, and record what you see. The resulting posts will be published at Wanderin’ Weeta. After looking under a couple of rocks, I posted about most of the creatures I discovered (including a very cool case-bearing [...] The first thing you notice about workers of the Southern fire ant, Solenopsis xyloni, is what fierce foragers they are. You never see just one foraging worker. Instead, there’s almost always a teeming mass. Even when they are collecting sweets at extrafloral nectaries, Southern fire ants show up in greater numbers than most other species. Southern fire ants [...] In the previous posts about the silverfish and the rove beetles, I mentioned that I found the insects in native fire ant nests. The native fire ant that is extremely common in Arizona is the southern fire ant, Solenopsis xyloni. Like other fire ants, the southern fire ant has a clubbed antenna and two nodes in [...] |
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