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Myrmecos · 1d ago

Italy in Brazil

If it weren’t for the stately Araucaria trees, I could swear I was in Italy instead of the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul: Incidentally, the sparkling wine here is unexpectedly good.
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Myrmecos · 5d ago

Sunday Night Movie: Cane Toads (The Conquest)

The trailer for the 2010 documentary horror film:
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Myrmecos · 1w ago

A hopper that mimics its ant associates

Hey all. I’m briefly back in internet contact, so I thought I’d share a shot from this afternoon. It shows a treehopper species whose adults have the same size, shape, and color of the abdomen of the Cephalotes atratus turtle ants that tend them: Anyone know the species? I’ve not had time to look it
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Myrmecos · 1W ago

Sunday Night Movie: Acacia Ants and Ant Acacias

I could do without the patronizing narration, but National Geographic’s footage of Pseudomyrmex acacia-ants is worth your time:
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Myrmecos · 2W ago

A brief blog break…

…for the month of May. Don’t worry- it’s for good myrmecological cause. I may stop in to give a brief dispatch now and again, but I can’t guarantee it. In the meantime, behave yourselves.
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Myrmecos · 3W ago

Multiple Choice

Blogging has been slow this week as, among other things, I’m readying the final exam for Insects & People. Here is an excerpt from a practice exam administered earlier this evening: In the absence of posting, I figured I’d at least offer some multiple-choice questions.
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Myrmecos · 3W ago

Not enough ants

It occurs to me that I don’t post nearly enough ants. Click “continue reading” and scroll down. That should take care of it.
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Myrmecos · 3W ago

New ant genera from Madagascar and Africa

Please welcome the shiny new ant genera Tanipone and Vicinopone to the world’s ant fauna! The new genera emerge from a detailed taxonomic study of the Malagasy and Afrotropical genus Simopone, published this week by Barry Bolton and Brian Fisher in an open-access monograph in Zootaxa. source: Bolton
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Myrmecos · 3W ago

Meanwhile, over at Compound Eye…

A few recent posts on my SciAm blog: When an artist copies a photograph, who gets the credit? 6 sources of free images for science blogging Experimenting with off-camera light
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Myrmecos · 3W ago

Sunday Night Movie: Andrew Bird’s Imitosis

Because robot bugs, that’s why. (h/t Polly Nator, who pointed me to the video for a song I already loved)
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