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Sunday Night Movie: An Ant Beetle
A short natural history video by French naturalist Vincent Lefebvre: This little Claviger beetle is a parasite of ant nests, tricking adults and larvae into regurgitating food for it. In spite of their...
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Monday Morning Movie: Aphid Parthenogenesis
Check out this beautiful homemade nature documentary by John Dunstan: Amazing dramas take place all the time, right in our own gardens.
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Sunday Night Movie: Racing To Dung
Another charming segment from the BBC: There are as many species of dung beetle on our planet as there are mammal species. Think about that, for a bit of perspective.
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Sunday Night Movie: Marlin Rice’s “Ants Africa” Wins EntSoc Award
Minutes ago, Marlin Rice won the Entomological Society of America’s “Your Entomology” award for this captivating video of African termite-raiding ants: Incidentally, Marlin was one of our BugShot photo...
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Sunday Night Movie: Valley of the Lost Ants (coming soon!)
As a fan of the charming Minuscule series, I couldn’t be happier about the upcoming movie. Here’s the trailer: (higher-quality version here)
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Sunday Night Movie: Isabella Rosellini Explains Earthworm Sex
From the artful & insightful Green Porno series.
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Sunday Night Movie: Do I Have Power?
Do we call the shots over nature? Or is it the other way around? Carlos De Carvalho explores these questions in a exceptional video clip set to Timbre Timbre’s “Do I Have Power?” Plus, bonus points for...
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Minute Myrmecology: Why do slave ants kill slavemakers?
A quick explainer of ant slave rebellions from the Foitzik lab, which studies them: In life, the ants look like this: Also: Joan Herbers on the cultural implications of “slave-raiding” terminology...
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Sunday Night Movie: True Facts about the Naked Mole Rat
Another instant classic by ze frank:
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A short film by Alvaro Mendoza productions: The piece captures antlion hunting strategy perfectly. The sand pit by itself is only a partial trap; most insects can climb out on their own. But not with...
View ArticleSunday Night Movie: Attenborough on Orb Weaving
Apparently we’re in the month of Arachtober, leaving me no choice but to share this clip of David Attenborough narrating the construction of a spider’s orb web. For a somewhat lighter version, there’s...
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Sunday Night Movie: Tschinkel’s Ant Nest Casts
Walter Tschinkel with a nest cast of the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex badius. Photograph by Charles Badland. If you’ve wondered how ant guy Walter Tschinkel creates those amazing casts of underground ant...
View ArticleSunday Night Movie: Which Came First, The Rain, or the Rainforest?
If you haven’t seen MinuteEarth, their concise explanatory videos are worth your time.
View ArticleSunday Night Movie: Ed LeBrun on Crazy Ants
While we’re on the topic of crazy ants, here’s a clip of my friend Ed LeBrun explaining the Nylanderia fulva invasion:
View ArticleCorrie Moreau on The Brain Scoop
The Chicago Field Museum’s Chief Curiosity Correspondent, Emily Graslie, talks with myrmecologist Corrie Moreau about why ants are awesome.
View ArticleSunday Night Movie: Trophallaxis
And now, a short video I made a few years ago: Ants exchange food with each other far more frequently than nutrition requires. Liquid food-sharing, called trophallaxis, instead serves a communicative...
View ArticleSunday Night Movie: Attenborough On Periodical Cicadas
I hear Brood III is emerging now in Iowa and western Illinois, just a couple hours from here. I’m hoping to take a cicada road trip later in the week. Stay tuned…
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