Benjamin Blanchard January 7, 2017 Art & Media

Coyote Peterson’s Overdramatic Experience With Bullet Ants

We’re ok with hamming it up for ants:

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JDB on January 7, 2017 at 8:51 pm
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If Coyote Peterson wants the world to take him seriously, he knows what to do.

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  Benjamin Blanchard on January 7, 2017 at 8:56 pm
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  Here at The Daily Ant, we have a More Ants More Good policy. What this means in this case is that we believe it would be better if Coyote Peterson tried being stung by more bullet ants.
  
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Why Are Canopy Ants So Dominant? | The Daily Ant on January 13, 2017 at 9:40 am
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[…] The leading hypothesis explaining canopy ant dominance is that the carbohydrate-rich diet of ants (from plant-produced sugar exudes to Hemipteran cattle) somehow promotes their success in the trees (let’s call it the Antkins Diet Hypothesis, the anthesis of the popular low-card diet). If the Antkins Diet Hypothesis is correct, then we should expect to see a correspondence between increases in carbohydrate use and some factor in a colony that would increase colony success relative to possible competitors. McGlynn and Parra test four specific mechanistic hypotheses in the omnivorous (and scary!) tropical ant Paraponera clavata (the infamous “bullet ant”): […]

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The Daily Ant One-Year Antiversary: In Review – The Daily Ant on December 13, 2017 at 5:51 pm
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[…] blue ants, exploding ants, invasive ants, big-headed ants, other trap-jaw ants, ant queen heads, bullet ants, ant-controlling fungus, canopy ants, lazy ants, ant navigation, ant societies, ant parasitoids, […]

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