Alex Wild on insects, science, and photography
Welcome to 2012! You look like you need something to read: The always-thoughtful Marlene Zuk weighs in on the semantics of insect slavery. Ever had that eerie feeling you’re being followed by a dragonfly? Chris Goforth examines the science. Fireflies. Wow. Rob Dunn 0, Kangaroo 1 Ed Yong’s best science reporting of 2011 contains a [...]
With the imminent demise of 2011, I’ve been reviewing my photographic efforts from the year. Excluding photos from our recent Australian adventures- I’m still crunching those- I created 609 saleable images processed from over 15000 exposures. Of those, here are ones I see as the best:
…so sayeth Bug Girl: It isn’t hard to find examples where science bloggers that use their real names–and that have known employers–have had disgruntled readers contact their boss. It isn’t hard to find examples where a decision has been made by the higher ups that silence is better than controversy, even if the information provided online [...]
Paraguay is the second poorest country in South America. You’d never know it from visiting some neighborhoods in the capital city of Asunción, though. Shiny new SUVs cruise the streets between the golf course and the yacht club. Boutique malls sell the latest in European fashion. Not a bad country for enjoying the good life. [...]
I’ve been reading Piotr Naskrecki’s glossy new book Relics and was intrigued by this observation: …the word ‘endemic’ has a somewhat perjorative connotation in the popular culture, as in ‘the corruption there is endemic,’ but to biologists this is an exciting word, indicating organisms that cannot be found anywhere else on the planet. The thought [...]
While I’m sure that sitting on an aggressive Formica mound to divine upcoming climate patterns has its charms, I don’t think I’ll be giving up on modern meteorology any time soon.
I woke this morning to see I’d been linked by astroblogger Phil Plait, reminding me of a pontification I’ve been meaning to pontificate. All fields of science are more unknown than known. That’s pretty much a given considering the span between the enormity of the Universe and the subatomic details of its smallest particles. But [...]
It’s February 16, 2002, shortly after noon, and I’m playing with a brand-new Nikon Coolpix 995 fresh out of the box: Looking through the archives, I do believe this is the first live ant photograph I ever took. I suppose I had to start somewhere. *update* Really? You guys really think this poorly focused, poorly [...]
A comment left last week on my bugs gallery: Love your photography – it has given me so much inspiration! Though I must say, I am surprised that you chose Papyrus font for your title… It’s going the way of Comic Sans, update it! I’d been thinking the same for the last year and a [...]
…on account of my learning Adobe Lightroom 3. So here’s an army ant to look at, instead.
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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