Alex Wild on insects, science, and photography
San Francisco’s KQED has crafted a lovely video featuring the research of Bay Area myrmecologists Brian Fisher and Neil Tsutsui:
If you’ve ever wanted a behind-the-scenes peak at the ant taxonomy megasite Antweb.org, give it a click.
Oh, and, the still photographs look vaguely familiar.
A personal blog by Illinois-based biologist and photographer Alex Wild.
Myrmecos- derived from the ancient greek word for "ant"- hosts Alex's musings about these and other little creatures that share our planet.
Questions? Email alwild [at] myrmecos.net; or follow @Myrmecos on Twitter.
So Brian keeps the insect-drawers at the cabinets without a lid [00:29]? Bad curator, bad!
Wait, what is that thing at 02:24? A queen of Apomyrma or Amblyopone mutica? Need to find out.
It’s just too bad that no one wants to be a taxonomist anymore. One of my friends in my biology class couldn’t understand why I (sort of) wanted to be a taxonomist, since she said it doesn’t pay compared to molecular biology these days. It’s great that Brian Fisher is representing ant taxonomy…I definitely am not qualified for that job.