http://www.antblog.co.uk/ Subscribe to the AntBlog Feature Blog. en-gb Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT Copyright: (C) 2012 AntBlog.co.uk, http://www.antblog.co.uk http://www.antblog.co.uk/forum/icon_smile.gif http://www.antblog.co.uk 19/01/2012 http://www.antblog.co.uk/news/news.htm?pk=150 Linepithema humile (The Argentine ant) -one of the world's most invasive species- arrived in New Zealand in 1990 and was shortly thereafter found to be present across the nation's two main islands. It immediately threatened the integrity of the... 17/01/2012 http://www.antblog.co.uk/news/news.htm?pk=149 ... 12/01/2012 http://www.antblog.co.uk/news/news.htm?pk=148 Pheidole are a genus of common ants comprised of over 1,000 related species. In most species of Pheidole, a developed colony has two distinct worker castes: small workers and large soldiers (or small minors and big majors). However, eight of the... 10/01/2012 http://www.antblog.co.uk/news/news.htm?pk=147 Last week there was something of a media foray over a fly. The fly in question, Apocephalus borealis, made the papers because it has been discovered to be parasitising honey bees - an agriculturally important and much loved insect. The Daily Mail... 28/12/2011 http://www.antblog.co.uk/news/news.htm?pk=146 Colorado born Mark Moffett holds a Harvard Ph.D. in entomology having studied under the world's most respected ecologist, E.O. Wilson (being Wilson's only graduate student for the seven straight years in which he studied). Moffett is an... 22/12/2011 http://www.antblog.co.uk/news/news.htm?pk=145 I acknowledged in my last post that we are not in a position to assert social insects have a consciousness, but I also alluded to the notion that it would be hasty to dismiss the possibility that they do.The Honey Bee has a brain one cubic... 21/12/2011 http://www.antblog.co.uk/news/news.htm?pk=144 First we must ask, what is consciousness? Consciousness is a phenomenon often described as self-awareness or wakefulness. It is the ability to experience, to feel or to have a concept of self. The mind is not directly observable; consciousness is a... 18/12/2011 http://www.antblog.co.uk/news/news.htm?pk=143 ... 15/12/2011 http://www.antblog.co.uk/news/news.htm?pk=142 Scientists have recently discovered that a common species of Cameroonian ant prefers to fight at range when it comes to warfare with termites.Crematogaster striatula workers hunt in packs and researchers observed groups of up to 15 ants using their...