Trapped inside an obsolete topology, a pavement ant explores the tangled jungle of Escher’s lost maze, her quest complicated by every new angle. • Pavement ant | Tetramorium caespitum
Tag: Formicidae
One Eye Half-Shut
An occasional sojourner in the pocket of a forgotten flower, every nook and hidden place glowing, navigating the underworld with one eye half-shut. * Pavement ant | Tetramorium caespitum
Corporate Memory Awash
Recently Melbourne researchers have found that green weaver ants memorise the odour of other green ants and use this to sniff out rivals and do battle. What an interesting reveal, especially when this “whiff” propagates amongst media news frenzy and a global run on the subject, goes a-wire! How much more could one tell about […]
Green Queen Ant
Strong winds and rain in North Queensland caused the early nesting of some fertilised winged Green Ants called a queen to be damaged or destroyed. Some have died in result of trying to re-established their nesting grounds, by attempting to lay another clutch of eggs (one third in size of the initial egg quantity), dying thereafter possibly […]