E.O. Wilson’s Global Town Hall
Yesterday, biologist E.O. Wilson held a Global Town Hall at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Nature Research Center. During the town hall, E.O.Wilson fielded questions from middle and...
View ArticleThe Week on Sunday #14
Another week, another collection of buggy delights: ◊ A UK logger captures a woodwasp (horntail: Hymenoptera, Family Siricidae) at work… ◊ Ants are fascinating in themselves, but nature ups-the ante...
View ArticleOur ‘pavement ants’…
The most common ant in our Edmonton, Alberta garden is a black field ant which manages to make nests in various areas, usually in conjunction with pavement. (The commonly known pavement ant,...
View ArticleNew-ish Review – Beetles who love aphids who love ants who love aphids….
Organisms that live with ants are called myrmecophiles: literally, “ant lovers”. They do this for a number of reasons: they may benefit from the protection offered by the ants, and/or the...
View ArticleAnt vs. wasp with a spider in the middle.
Every year I come across a few spider-hunting wasps, but I have yet to see a paralyzed spider actually being pulled into the nest. This time it seemed a sure thing: I first spotted the wasp at the nest...
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