Alex Wild on insects, science, and photography
We interrupt Army Ant Week to announce that a paper describing the Atta cephalotes leafcutter ant genome has just been published. I’ll report more on this research next week, once we take leave of the army ants. source: Suen G, Teiling C, Li L, Holt C, Abouheif E, et al. (2011) The Genome Sequence of [...]
In the comments, myrmecologist James Trager notes: A serious question, though, have you ever seen these soldiers eat? I have not and always wondered how they go about it. Come to think of it, I don’t have much recollection of seeing any army ants eating. I have never seen a soldier or a queen army [...]
Just checking in. How are you finding Army Ant Week? A couple days remain in the ecitonine blitz, is there anything you’d like to see covered? Mistakes of mine you’d like to correct? Do you have links, photos, videos or stories to share? Incidentally, in case today’s momentous events got you to wondering. Yes, Egypt [...]
Last year army ant guru Carl Rettenmeyer posthumously published a paper documenting the tremendous diversity of animals associated with Eciton burchellii. Over 500, in fact. Eciton burchellii has a larger known entourage than any other species of animal. Although Eciton‘s associates are the best documented, all army ant species have them. Ant colonies represent a [...]
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.
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