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awild | April 26, 2010
You're in luck! Antweb has added an excellent blog to handle submitted questions. The answer squad is headed by myrmecologists at the Chicago Field Museum, and so far they've fielded queries about what ants do in winter, whether fire ants will reach the northern U.S., the difference between ants and termites, and several others.
Send your questions to askantweb@calacademy.org.
awild | December 14, 2008Remember Martialis heureka? Antweb.org has just posted some new high-res images of the specimen:
awild | September 17, 2008
Platythyrea pilosula - Image by April Nobile/Antweb
Yesterday, the above photograph was uploaded to Antweb's databases.  Platythyrea pilosula is the final species to be imaged for the Ants of Paraguay project, marking the end of a sporadic and meandering study that I started in 1995 as a hobby during my stint in the Peace Corps. After combining several years' worth of my field collections with the holdings at 19 entomological museums, I tallied 541 species for the country. This turns out to be too many species to keep track of in my head (I max out at about 300 or so), so I've found…