Alex Wild on insects, science, and photography
The most astounding arthropod I found in Ecuador last month wasn’t an ant, believe it or not, although it looks just like one from a few feet away. Aphantochilus is a crab spider slightly over a centimeter long. The species isn’t exactly uncommon in the Neotropics- in fact, Aphantochilus has appeared previously on Myrmecos. Rather, [...]
In 2008 Jürgen Heinze penned “The Demise of the Standard Ant“, noting that the stereotyped ant nuclear family (one queen, one male, and lots of kids) was increasingly obscured by an accumulation of myrmecological data showing enormous variation among species in life history, that real ant colonies were often messy polygamous affairs, and that odd [...]
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.
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