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	<description>Alex Wild on insects, science, and photography</description>
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		<title>A Dominant Dolichoderine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago Australian myrmecologist Alan Andersen proposed a set of categories for arranging ant species by &#8220;functional group&#8220;. These groups carried names like &#8220;cold-climate specialists,&#8221; and &#8220;subordinate camponotines,&#8221; and they were widely adopted by ecologists for their ease of use. The scheme also drew considerable ire from taxonomists, especially since the categories were somewhat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/02/10/a-dominant-dolichoderine/</link>
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		<title>Cat Death Lasers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Set phasers on stun, Captain.]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/02/09/cat-death-lasers/</link>
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		<title>The central issue posed by every society, insect &amp; non-insect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A slide from my lecture tomorrow morning on social insects: Years ago I held the opinion that social insects were too alien, their concerns too remote from our own, to enlighten us about the nature of our human societies. I&#8217;ve since come around to a more nuanced perspective. It is certainly still true that ants&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/02/07/the-central-issue-posed-by-every-society-insect-non-insect/</link>
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		<title>Answer to the Monday Night Mystery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow. I swap the standard bug identification for a history trivia challenge and participation jumps not only on this blog but across Facebook, G+, and Twitter! The answer was stated most concisely, if belatedly, by Jesse: Dactylopius coccus, or cochineal scale insects, can be found on the Opuntia cactus in the foreground. The red dye [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/02/07/answer-to-the-monday-night-mystery-55/</link>
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		<title>Monday Mystery: History Trivia Night!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a change of pace from our usual identification-based challenges, tonight&#8217;s mystery will involve a bit of historical trivia. How so? Consider a landscape from the Rincon mountains east of Tucson, Arizona: I will award 10 Myrmecos points to the first person who can tell me how the subject of this image relates to 18th [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/02/06/monday-mystery-history-trivia-night/</link>
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		<title>Sunday Night Movie: The Beetle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A flashback to last year&#8217;s buggiest Super Bowl commercial: I can&#8217;t be bothered to choose between the Patriots or the Giants this year, so I&#8217;m just going to enjoy my beer and hope for more insects in the advertising.]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/02/05/sunday-night-movie-the-beetle/</link>
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		<title>Answer to the Monday Mystery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it Friday already? Crum. It&#8217;s been a busy week and I&#8217;ve neglected to answer the Case of the Amber Ring. Points go to Julie Stalhut (5 pts) for being first to subfamily and to MarekB for being first to genus (5pts), with 1 pt each awarded to SteveS &#38; Vincent Perrichot for suggesting the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/02/03/answer-to-the-monday-mystery-6/</link>
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		<title>The wrong superhero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when I need it, xkcd fires out the perfect comic! I was just exhorting our Insects &#38; People students to keep their study of insects separate from their study of word origins.]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/02/03/the-wrong-superhero/</link>
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		<title>An unusual wasp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s why I love the internet. Within 24 hours of tweeting a new photo of an odd Australian wasp, I received this tweet back from the fine folks at the NCSU insect museum: I emailed chrysidid expert Lynn Kimsey, a friend from my grad school days back at U.C. Davis. I hadn&#8217;t recognized the wasp [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/02/01/an-unusual-wasp/</link>
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		<title>BugShot Insect Photography Workshops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to announce that BugShot, our humble insect photography event from last summer, is poised to expand into a series of courses &#38; workshops. For starters, this means two things: The 2012 BugShot summer workshop now has a time and a place: the magical Archbold Biological Station in Florida, August 23-26. BugShot now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://myrmecos.net/2012/01/31/bugshot-insect-photography-workshops/</link>
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