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A Guide to the Insect Field Guides of North America
The summer insect season is upon us here in temperate North America, and with it comes the need for good identification guides. Before I begin, a cautionary note. We have so many species on our...
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Friday Beetle Blogging: Spotted Maize Beetle
Astylus atromaculatus (Melyridae), Argentina The spotted maize beetle Astylus atromaculatus is native to subtropical South America but has spread to warm regions in other parts of the world. In late...
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Pheidole Friday Beetle Blogging
Who says we can’t have both beetles and Pheidole on Friday? A South African Sap Beetle (Nitidulidae) reacts to a swarm of Pheidole megacephala by retracting its legs and antennae, leaving little...
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Images of the Archbold Biological Station
dawn in the scrub I spent last week in central Florida at the Archbold Biological Station. Archbold preserves 5,000 hectares of Florida sand scrub, some of the last remaining patches of an ecosystem...
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Ants of Archbold
Pogonomyrmex badius The Archbold Biological Station hosts 100+ species of ants. Here are a few of them. Trachymyrmex septentrionalis Platythyrea punctata Strumigenys rogeri Cyphomyrmex rimosus (queen)...
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The Phantom Ant of the Florida Dunes
Paratrechina Nylanderia phantasma Archbold Biological Station, Florida Here’s an ant I almost didn’t notice. Paratrechina Nylanderia phantasma is one of the least known insects in North America,...
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A battle for the desert
Pogonomyrmex maricopa (at left) tussles with an Aphaenogaster albisetosa at the Aphaenogaster nest entrance. While in Arizona, I chanced upon a set of ant fights that I’d observed several times...
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Pyramica clypeata
Pyramica clypeata Urbana, Illinois photo details: Canon mp-e 65mm 1-5x macro lens on a Canon EOS 50D ISO 100, f/13, 1/250 sec, flash diffused through tracing paper
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Friday Beetle Blogging: Goldenrod Soldier Beetles
Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus Goldenrod Soldier Beetles Illinois, USA Here at Myrmecos Blog we aim for a family-friendly atmosphere. Except for beetle sex. Sometimes we just can’t resist. (There’s...
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The other ant-fungi
If I were to mention an ant-fungus mutualism- that is, an ecological partnership between an ant and a fungus that benefits both- most biologically literate people might think of the famed leafcutter...
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