Skip to main content
Advertisment
Home

Main navigation

  • Life Sciences
  • Physical Sciences
  • Environment
  • Social Sciences
  • Education
  • Policy
  • Medicine
  • Brain & Behavior
  • Technology
  • Free Thought
  1. myrmecos
  2. Ant News Roundup

Ant News Roundup

  • email
  • facebook
  • linkedin
  • X
  • reddit
  • print
Profile picture for user awild
By awild on August 11, 2008.

Asphinctopone differens Bolton & Fisher 2008

A new species from the Central African Republic

Bolton & Fisher Revise Asphinctopone (Zootaxa)

Shattuck Revises the Indo-Pacific Prionopelta

All imported Fire Ants in the U.S. are descended from 9-20 initial foundress queens

[summary in ScienceDaily]

ZooKeys: A new open-access journal for biodiversity & taxonomy

Tags
ants
Insect Links
Science
entomology
new species

More like this

Advertisment

Donate

ScienceBlogs is where scientists communicate directly with the public. We are part of Science 2.0, a science education nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please make a tax-deductible donation if you value independent science communication, collaboration, participation, and open access.

You can also shop using Amazon Smile and though you pay nothing more we get a tiny something.

 

Science 2.0

  • Here's Where Your Backyard Was 300 Million Years Ago
  • Convergent Evolution Cheat Sheet Now 120 Million Years Old
  • David Morens Investigated For COVID-19 Cover-Up
  • Synchrotron Could Shed Light On Exotic Dark Photons
  • The Pain Scale Is Broken But This May Fix It

Science Codex

More by this author

Myrmecos goes home
July 21, 2010
After some consideration, I have decided to move Myrmecos back to its original location: http://myrmecos.net/ I apologize for making everyone change RSS feeds and bookmarks twice in recent months. What's worse, I can't promise that Myrmecos won't move again in the near future. Some intriguing…
Just what you wanted: more Pepsi blogging
July 10, 2010
I've posted all I'm going to say about Pepsigeddon here.
Enjoy a nice cold Pepsi today
July 6, 2010
And while you're doing that, I have answered the Monday Mystery back at my tried and true wordpress blog. I will be blogging at the old digs for the next few days until I have had time to digest the unfortunate recent events here at Scienceblogs. What's going on? I'll let my excellent sciblings…
Up close with a drone fly
July 6, 2010
Eristalis, the drone fly Urbana, Illinois Easily mistaken for a bee, Eristalis is in fact a clever mimic capable of luring many an unsuspecting observer into the land of amusing taxonomy fail. But the structure of the antennae, the broad attachment of the abdomen to the thorax, and the presence of…
Linguistics
July 6, 2010
I would like to point out that when an Australian says "pot plant", they mean house plant. We had some issues with this linguistic distinction when Mrs. Myrmecos first moved here from Melbourne and started telling everyone about the great pot plants we were growing on the porch. I do congratulate…

More reads

The Origin of the Chicken
Photograph of a chicken. Click to see larger version. From PLOS article cited in blog post. Where and when were chickens domesticated? From whence the humble chicken? Gallus gallus is a domesticated chicken-like bird (thus, the name "chicken") that originates in southeast Asia. Ever since Darwin we've known that the chicken originated in southeast Asia, although the exact details of which…
Cancer quackery, Republican presidential candidates, and political influence
Yesterday, I wrote about how pediatric neurosurgeon turned presidential candidate Ben Carson is an excellent example demonstrating how the vast majority of physicians and surgeons, even highly accomplished ones admired as being at the top of their professions, are not scientists and how many of them are disturbingly prone to buying into pseudoscience. In Dr. Carson's case, that tendency to…
029/366: 2-D Collision Physics
The JCC day care was closed again today, so I spent the day out and about with The Pip while SteelyKid was at school. While I did take the DSLR along, none of the pictures I got were all that great, so you get a cell-phone snapshot that's mostly interesting because of the subject matter: The Pip playing air hockey. One of the two stops on our big outing of the day was the bouncy-bounce place…

© 2006-2026 Science 2.0. All rights reserved. Privacy statement. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of Science 2.0, a science media nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are fully tax-deductible.