Alex Wild on insects, science, and photography
Of all the ant sites on the internet, few are as effective an outreach tool as AntWeb.org’s excellent Ant Blog. Reader questions about everything from ant-rearing tips to identifications to pest control are farmed out to the appropriate experts. Responses are characteristically authoritative and good-natured. Consider the Ant Blog’s answer to the above question about patio [...]
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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