Alex Wild on insects, science, and photography
For those of you in Minas Gerais, I’ll be giving a talk this week at the federal university in Viçosa. Here are the details: How to take better insect photographs (with any kind of camera) Alex Wild 4 pm Thursday, May 31 Universidade Federal de Viçosa Department of Entomology Open to the public.
If it weren’t for the stately Araucaria trees, I could swear I was in Italy instead of the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul: Incidentally, the sparkling wine here is unexpectedly good.
The trailer for the 2010 documentary horror film:
Hey all. I’m briefly back in internet contact, so I thought I’d share a shot from this afternoon. It shows a treehopper species whose adults have the same size, shape, and color of the abdomen of the Cephalotes atratus turtle ants that tend them: Anyone know the species? I’ve not had time to look it [...]
I could do without the patronizing narration, but National Geographic’s footage of Pseudomyrmex acacia-ants is worth your time:
…for the month of May. Don’t worry- it’s for good myrmecological cause. I may stop in to give a brief dispatch now and again, but I can’t guarantee it. In the meantime, behave yourselves.
Blogging has been slow this week as, among other things, I’m readying the final exam for Insects & People. Here is an excerpt from a practice exam administered earlier this evening: In the absence of posting, I figured I’d at least offer some multiple-choice questions.
It occurs to me that I don’t post nearly enough ants. Click “continue reading” and scroll down. That should take care of it.
Please welcome the shiny new ant genera Tanipone and Vicinopone to the world’s ant fauna! The new genera emerge from a detailed taxonomic study of the Malagasy and Afrotropical genus Simopone, published this week by Barry Bolton and Brian Fisher in an open-access monograph in Zootaxa. source: Bolton B., Fisher B.L. 2012. Taxonomy of the cerapachyine ant genera Simopone [...]
A few recent posts on my SciAm blog: When an artist copies a photograph, who gets the credit? 6 sources of free images for science blogging Experimenting with off-camera light
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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