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		<title>Sunday Night Movie: Cane Toads (The Conquest)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The trailer for the 2010 documentary horror film:]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/05/20/sunday-night-movie-cane-toads-the-conquest/</link>
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		<title>A hopper that mimics its ant associates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey all. I&#8217;m briefly back in internet contact, so I thought I&#8217;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&#8217;ve not had time to look it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/05/18/a-hopper-that-mimics-its-ant-associates/</link>
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		<title>Sunday Night Movie: Acacia Ants and Ant Acacias</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I could do without the patronizing narration, but National Geographic&#8217;s footage of Pseudomyrmex acacia-ants is worth your time:]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/05/13/sunday-night-movie-acacia-ants-and-ant-acacias/</link>
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		<title>A brief blog break&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;for the month of May. Don&#8217;t worry- it&#8217;s for good myrmecological cause. I may stop in to give a brief dispatch now and again, but I can&#8217;t guarantee it. In the meantime, behave yourselves.]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/05/10/a-brief-blog-break/</link>
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		<title>Multiple Choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blogging has been slow this week as, among other things, I&#8217;m readying the final exam for Insects &#38; People. Here is an excerpt from a practice exam administered earlier this evening: In the absence of posting, I figured I&#8217;d at least offer some multiple-choice questions.]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/05/03/multiple-choice/</link>
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		<title>Not enough ants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It occurs to me that I don&#8217;t post nearly enough ants. Click &#8220;continue reading&#8221; and scroll down. That should take care of it.]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/05/01/not-enough-ants/</link>
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		<title>New ant genera from Madagascar and Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please welcome the shiny new ant genera Tanipone and Vicinopone to the world&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/05/01/new-ant-genera-from-madagascar-africa/</link>
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		<title>Meanwhile, over at Compound Eye&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/05/01/meanwhile-over-at-compound-eye-3/</link>
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		<title>Sunday Night Movie: Andrew Bird&#8217;s Imitosis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because robot bugs, that&#8217;s why. (h/t Polly Nator, who pointed me to the video for a song I already loved)]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/04/29/sunday-night-movie-andrew-birds-imitosis/</link>
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		<title>Camponotus impressus, a cork-headed ant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of Josh King&#8217;s lab ants at the University of Central Florida. The blunt head serves as a living door to this species&#8217; twig nests. photo details: Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens on a Canon EOS 7D ISO 200 f/13 1/250 sec diffuse twin flash]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/04/26/camponotus-impressus-a-cork-headed-ant/</link>
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