Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
One of the Arizona ants that I had always wanted to see was Pheidole militicida. Like many Arizona ants, they are a seed harvesting species. Their major caste has spectacularly over-sized heads, heads so disproportionately large that you would think…
On an overcast afternoon in mid-August, 2005, I was walking through the Sonoran Desert just outside of Tucson. I came across a group of golden-colored ants fighting. The ants were small, no more than a few millimeters long. They were…
In late March, 2005, I was sitting and watching a Pheidole rhea nest just outside of Tucson, Arizona. The worker ants were removing a large, dead supermajor.
One evening in June of 2001, Laurie and I were camping on the East Overlook of the North Kaibab National Forest. We’d just set up camp after a long drive. While we were walking around, waiting for the sun to…