Alex Wild on insects, science, and photography
What was the source of last night’s crazy wailing and whooping? The culprit looks every bit as odd as it sounds! Treehoppers communicate with vibration, and the recording I featured last night was the courtship signal a male Heteronotus broadcasts along a plant stem to woe females. I borrowed the clip from Rex Cocroft’s collection [...]
Many writers have taken to longform blogging, whereby they use the online medium to pen deeper missives than space-constrained print outlets allow. I am not a writer. However, I suppose we photobloggers should keep up with the times. Thus, I bring you longform photoblogging: I’d do more of these long thin photos, but first I [...]
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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