Myrmicine ants are a mess. The subfamily Myrmicinae holds about half of all ant species and includes fire ants, harvester ants, leafcutter ants, turtle ants, and many more. Attempts to arrange the diversity into workable subgroups have been difficult and largely unsatisfying. Many species stubbornly show traits of several groups at once. Molecular trees (Moreau [...]
A personal blog by Illinois-based biologist and photographer Alex Wild.
