Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
Another ant that I found on yesterday’s trip to Farmington was Myrmecocystus mimicus. These are a type of “Honeypot Ant”. They were much easier to photograph than the Pogonomyrmex, since Myrmecocystus can’t sting, and are not very aggressive. I think…
We’ve had a few warm-ish days after the last bout of snow storms. The weather is hitting 60 degrees F in the afternoons. I made a trip over to the desert just north of Farmington to see if any of…
On March 23 of 2003, I was to the west of Phoenix, Arizona in the Estrella Mountains. On this fine day, I’d already seen Euryopis spiders preying on Solenopsis xyloni (Southern Fire Ants). So I was thrilled to see more…
These photos are from an anting trip I made out to the dry bed of the Agua Fria River on March 2, 2002. I’d taken my dogs – a Whippet and a Jack Russell Terrier – for company. We were…
On August 13, 2005, I was walking through our South Tucson neighborhood after dark. There was a lot of Sonoran upland desert in our housing area, and it was surprising how many neat things you could see while out at…
On March 23 of 2003, slightly more than a year after my previous encounter with Euryopis spiders, I was anting in the Estrella Mountains, just to the southwest of Phoenix, Arizona. I was watching some Solenopsis xyloni (Southern Fire Ants)…
Way back in March of 2001, my wife and I were out hiking in Phoenix’s South Mountains. I had just gotten my first digital camera, a Nikon Coolpix, and was eager to take some photos. I was trying to take…
These photos are from a trip I took in June of 2005, to Pinetop, Arizona. I was looking for ants, and I had put out some cookie crumbs as bait. This particular location had both Camponotus and Pheidole ants at…
About a month after I watched the Forelius pruinosus eating the Sagauro Cactus fruit, I was watching tiny ants going in and out of a small slit in a Prickly Pear Cactus fruit.
One day in late June, 2003, I was walking through Saguaro National Park East. The Sagauro Cactus fruits were starting to ripen, and a few had fallen to the ground. Looking at one of the fruits, I saw what looked…