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Myrmecology Dies in Darkness
Category: News
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That’s right – this very day, February 21st, 2023, is the publication date of Ants: A Visual Guide! If you order today at Princeton University Press, you can even get 30% with the discount “PUP30” (the code works for both the hardcover and ebook version). If that doesn’t sound like a steal, then check out…
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There is a moment in the life of every media outlet dedicated to providing premier ant content for general consumption when it becomes inescapably clear that silence is no longer an option. Formicid friends, readers, and inquilines, we at The Daily Ant have arrived at such a moment. We have been silent for two full…
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Fans of K-Pop will recognize this group of young men as the world-famous South Korean band “BTS”: Fans of ants will wonder what BTS has to do with ants. It turns out that the boy band’s music label is Big Hit Entertainment, which is going public in a much-anticipated IPO next month. As explained in…
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According to a 2016 report in The Huffington Post, when winged ants (males and reproductive females) emerge for their nuptial flights, the seagulls go wild. Or, rather, they trip out on the ants’ formic acid. As reported in HuffPo: “Dr. Rebecca Nesbit of the Society of Biology says the ants contain formic acid, which can cause gulls…
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Blessed readers, we are pleased to announce two items of interest to you, the antlightened crowd! First, after too long of a publishing hiatus brought on by an unfortunate combination of distraction and malaise, it is our intention to resume the regular production of premier ant content for general consumption within the next week or so.…
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We surely need not remind our readers that human leftists and ants go hand in tarsus. You can imagine our surprise, then, when Fraternal Correspondant Joshua Blanchard alerted us to a shocking, anti-ant video documenting a recent conversation between alleged leftists Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper. Before getting to the video, remember that labor unions…
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The XXIV Simpósio de Mirmecologia (Myrmecology Symposium) is underway in Belo Horizonte in the beautiful state of Minas Gerais, Brazil! Our editor-in-chief, Benjamin Blanchard, is on site, and The Daily Ant is pleased to cover the activities at this symposium by providing live updates (when Wi-Fi availability is permitting). Enjoy! Updated at 8:55am on October 9th, 2019…
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We know what you are thinking. Indeed, our production of premier ant content for general consumption has been flagging lately. It’s true, we haven’t posted a non-Philosophy Phridays article in quite a long time. Could it be a conspiracy? Has Big Vertebrate succeeded in silencing our noble cause? Could chemtrails be to blame? Well, we don’t…
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Earlier this week, a staff member at Rutgers – Camden Campus News reached out to The Daily Ant with an exciting press release. The release highlights the work of Sammy Schofield, a researcher and undergraduate student in Dr. Amy Savage lab: Schofield’s project examines how fine-scale habitat complexity affects the diversity of species of arthropods such as ants in…
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Imagine that you are a mango farmer in Thailand. You’re happy with your mango crop, and happily head off to the market to sell your delicious fruit. There, you expect to sell out, but instead find that few passerby are interested in your produce. To add antsult to injury, you look at a nearby stall…
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We’ve once again fallen rather silent for over two weeks, yet throughout the past month or so, our devoted readership has sent us a steady supply of premier ant content. Below, we present you a list of seven interesting items we almost allowed you to miss!
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We wish all of our readers a simply thrilling 1st World Ant Day! Myrmecologist Dr. Mike Kaspari, in a flash of inspiration, realized that World Ant Day did not yet exist. Thus, on April 21st, he announced a date for a new holiday: https://twitter.com/MikeKaspari/status/987845284418981888 On July 23rd, Dr. Kaspari proposed a special way to celebrate…
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