Okay so back in late December some local winter ants (Prenolepis imparis) had a HUGE mating flight, and I found a couple IN COPULA so naturally I had to keep the female
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Okay so back in late December some local winter ants (Prenolepis imparis) had a HUGE mating flight, and I found a couple IN COPULA so naturally I had to keep the female
Gabriel and Andrea, students in Corrie Moreau's lab at the Field Museum, showing off the myrmecological diversity of the museum's insect collections.
Photo by James Waters.
Authors and myrmecologists, Clint and Eleanor, packaging up ants in a lab at NCSU to send to the international space station!
Adam, a postdoc in Iowa, digging up ant queens in California - to help him answer questions about how their hormones affect their ability to cooperate with each other.
Photo by James Waters.
Bert, one of world's leading experts on ant evolution, development, behavior, and physiology, is seen here beside a colony of seed harvesting ants in Arizona.
Photo by James Waters.
Maria is an ASU undergraduate painting individual ants with unique color codes to help answer questions about how their interactions with each other generate coordinated behaviors.
Photo by James Waters.
Phil (ASU undergraduate, now a grad student at the AMNH) is presenting a poster on his research on ant evolution.
Photo by James Waters.