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Ant Movie
A mountain of exposed fire ants, mounded up on the brood pile to conserve moisture. Okay, last fire ant post for a while . (Next I’ll do things that live with ants!) Here’s a video I put together...
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Mantis Montage
Chinese mantis first instar nymphs (Tenodera sinensis). Here’s some video clips of the Chinese mantises I reared out of an egg case early this year. I enjoyed watching them hunting fruit flies,...
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Ant Bridge – Video
Video of the floating fire ant bridge, as promised. The music is a bit odd, but I couldn’t resist. See also: Ant Bridge
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Swarms of Fire Ants
Fire ant workers swarm defensively prior to a mating flight. Sexual fire ants typically fly on clear, windless afternoons following a rain. Workers open large holes in the nest, and then spread out,...
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Baby, Baby, Baby (Ants queens and brood)
Since I’m on the topic of mating flights and founding colonies, here’s a video of some fire ant foundress queens tending their eggs, brood, and young workers. …I sort of really, really want to add...
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Maggot Art Live
Here’s a video I put together of the “maggot art” I talked about earlier this week. Enjoy!
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Fire ants vs. Rasberry crazy ants
Here’s an interesting video for you of some interactions between fire ants (the invasive ant species closest to my heart) and a newly invasive ant species beginning to spread across Texas. Rasberry...
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Fire Ant Mating Flight
Following up the post from last Friday, here’s is some extremely dramatic and engaging cell phone footage of a mating flight of fire ants on a stump outside our lab. Video courtesy Collin McMichael....
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