- The U.K.-based film company Ammonite has been blogging their ant-filming experiences in Costa Rica and Spain. The glamor of making nature documentaries apparently includes skin parasites and volcano-related travel limbo.
- The journal Myrmecological News has a trio of new articles, including descriptions of two new myrmicine species.
- Ted MacRae thinks ant taxonomy is entirely too complicated and proposes an alternative.
- Ant developmental biologist Ehab Abouheif is featured in a short but excellent documentary (French language). (h/t Archetype).
- Marvel's Ant-Man inches closer to the big screen.
- Want to see a really odd ant? Antweb just imaged its first Anomalomyrma workers.
- Get your harvester ant fix at Pogolumina.
- This is not an ant!
- Listen to E. O. Wilson read from his new novel.
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That ant mimic ("Not an ant!") looks like the Bow-Legged Bug nymphs we have here in Florida! Maybe Hyalymenus sp. (Hemiptera: Alydidae)?
Check out this similar photo on bugguide.net: http://bugguide.net/node/view/218529/bgimage
Alex, thank you for the link! Pogolumina is just getting started - I am refining, correcting, and adding to the content daily. We're having a spate of cold rainy weather in Washington state at the moment, but when it clears I will be experimenting some new lighting techniques, and video.
David:
You've been given some attention here, also.
The anthropomorph in me immediately thought of the teaser trailer for The Ant Bully, where a distinctly non-hymenopteran insect is auditioning for a role as an ant:
Casting director: "We need an ant."
Hopeful actor: "I can do ant!"
Casting director: "A RED ant!"
Hopeful actor: "I can do red, too!"