The dreaded Siafu: Dorylus sp. soldiers guard a foraging trail.
If you’ve been following Myrmecos, you might know I was lucky to instruct this summer’s Ant Course in Uganda. Unsurprisingly, it was epic. And I’ve got the photos to prove it:
Photographs from Ant Course/Uganda
During the 10-day course I took 5,280 exposures. After culling and processing, as of this afternoon I have uploaded 202 of the best. This is a 4% keep rate, very much in line with the 3% baseline from Australia and Brazil earlier this year. Some of these photos you may have seen in my various posts over the past couple months, but most are shiny, new, and unblogged. I hope you enjoy them.
A personal blog by Illinois-based biologist and photographer Alex Wild.
Hi Alex, i’m student brazilian of biology and admire your work. I was wondering if you Already visited Brazil? Who brazilian species of ants you studied?
thanks for attention and sorry for my bad english.
Those Crematogaster pictures are neat. It seems that some of the larvae have tubercles with prominent stiff hooked hairs, while others don’t.
Yes- that’s a bit of an ongoing mystery, as no one is sure if the knobbly larvae actually belong to the Crematogaster or are some sort of inquiline.
Superb! What an awesome gallery Alex. I cant even begin to imagine what it was like to be in the forest photographing these amazing beasts
Fantastic pics – as usual! Thank you!
What I love the best is the variety of mandibles, their different shapes and functions!
The Plectotrena+millipede is just gorgeous.
Ant Course is special, no doubt.
I looked at all of them. Almost makes me want to study ants instead of small brown beetles. Almost
Hi Alex:
I just looked at all 204 of your photos from your Uganda trip! How impressive! Almost makes me wish I had started my taxonomic studies with ants rather than fishes! Great job!
Rob
Aaaaand this makes me even more excited for Ant Course 2013. Any chance you’ll be instructing again, Alex?
Now Alex you took 5,280 photos right using a standard 36 exposure roll of film its works out you used equivalent to 147 rolls of film.
These are great. A nice field trip to an African forest, and with all our myrmecologist friends, old and new.
Super pic’s I also enjoyed the photos of the participants at work. Looking forward to seeing you at the MONEP meeting in St Louis this Tuesday.
John
Sorry, I mean next Tuesday, the 20th
John
I’ll be in Florida, John. Contact me jamesDOTtragerATgmail if you know something I don’t about the MONEP mtg.
Hah – Just checked the MONEP calendar. Alex is the speaker! (At least it’s not supposed to be me.)