Alex Wild on insects, science, and photography
The following announcement was sent in by Paleomyrmecologist Vincent Perrichot: Fossil Ants (Antweb) Regular users of Antweb may have noticed that a project named Fossil ants was added some months ago (www.antweb.org/fossil.jsp); a few technical issues prevented the imaged species to show up correctly, however, resulting in only a few visible species fully illustrated. These [...]
San Francisco’s KQED has crafted a lovely video featuring the research of Bay Area myrmecologists Brian Fisher and Neil Tsutsui: QUEST on KQED Public Media. If you’ve ever wanted a behind-the-scenes peak at the ant taxonomy megasite Antweb.org, give it a click. Oh, and, the still photographs look vaguely familiar.
Remember Martialis heureka? Antweb.org has just posted some new high-res images of the specimen:
Yesterday, the above photograph was uploaded to Antweb’s databases. Platythyrea pilosula is the final species to be imaged for the Ants of Paraguay project, marking the end of a sporadic and meandering study that I started in 1995 as a hobby during my stint in the Peace Corps. After combining several years’ worth of [...]
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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