Alex Wild on insects, science, and photography
Is your academic conference boring, lifeless, and lacking inspiration? That’s too bad. You probably should have invited Barrett Klein. Barrett is a recently-minted Ph.D. from UT Austin who studies social insects. But that’s not the subject of this post. Rather, Barrett has developed a habit of borrowing name tags from other conference attendees and adorning [...]
What were those sonorous summer songs? In spite of being “the toughest MNM yet,” several of you picked the correct answers. Five points each go to Scot for the scissor-grinder cicada Tibicen pruinosa, and to Ted MacRae for the jumping bush cricket Orocharis saltator. An excellent resource for learning the singing insects of eastern North [...]
My photo of two Formica nestmates accompanies the latest salvo in the long-standing argument over the roles of Kin Selection and Group Selection in the emergence of eusociality. I disagree with the conclusion that kin selection has little to do with social evolution, but as I’m short on blogging time today I will spare you [...]
…but the aphids steal the show: As you may have noticed I’ve been experimenting recently with various forms of video. Time-lapse photography only requires a regular still camera, a tripod, and an interval timer, so it doesn’t need any video equipment save the software on the finishing end. The above clip is made from 1/2 [...]
A personal weblog 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? Comments? Email alwild [at] myrmecos.net
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