Mastodawn

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Three more books from my employer's January sale (Is there more to come? Yes, there is more to come): All books that I would love to review at some point.
- The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow; the second book by the Novella brothers of the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast, published by Hodder & Stoughton.
- Ants: Workers of the World; a photographic portfolio by author Eleanor Spicer Rice and photographer Eduard Florin Niga, published by Abrams.
- Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It; a searing critique by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and @maxwilbert, published by Monkfish Book Publishing.

#Futurism #Entomology #Myrmecology #Environmentalism #Greenwashing #Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm @[email protected]

Kimberley Mar 27

There’s an ant party going on in some old dead leaves on my alchemilla mollis plant

#ants #myrmecology

Plazi Species Mar 13

#NewSpecies!
New ant from #vietnam just came in:

Carebara eguchii

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C4035C20-33FD-51E7-9A79-31D2FBFA863D
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/dez.72.171173
#DeutscheEntomologischeZeitschrift #CarebaraEguchii

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fanua #invertebrates #entomology #insects #hymenoptera #myrmecology #ants

myrmepropagandist Dec 15

So a few months back I found a study that tried to do the "mirror test for consciousness" on ants. I remember not being very impressed with the journal where it was published, though I found the topic fascinating.

Anton Petrov has now mentioned this study in one of his videos, which means it's going to spread more.

So... how do the ant people feel about this?

https://www.journalofscience.net/html/MjY4a2FsYWk=

@alexwild @MyrmecolNews #ants #ant #myrmecology

Html - journal of science

International Journal of Pharmacy

Gum on China’s Shoe Dec 4

With the dry heat over the weekend, we must have had some local ant colonies swarming, resulting in a multitude of lost alates stuck on the ceiling of our indoor stairwell. They've been there for days, and I finally got the chance to catch some to see if I can raise them through to a new captive colony. It appears to be a perilous process - something always seems to go wrong.

These ladies will now go into a dark drawer for the next few months to see what happens.

#ants #myrmecology