- 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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