Alex Wild on insects, science, and photography
I can’t imagine what an insect infected with a mermithid nematode must feel. In Belize last week we encountered several parasitized trap-jaw ants, each stumbling about with a belly twice the heft of that in a healthy ant. Scaled to human size, a mermithid would be at least as intrusive as an anaconda coiled among [...]
A personal blog 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.
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