The Southwestern Naturalist, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Jun., 2003), pp. 274-277 (4 pages) I compared the presence and abundance of nest-sites made by harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex), the primary prey for the ...

Ants are usually regarded as the unwanted guests at a picnic. But a recent study of California seed harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex californicus) examining their metabolic rate in relation to colony size ...

Dispersal has important genetic and evolutionary consequences. It is notoriously difficult to study in some ant species, because reproductives fly from parent nests to mating aggregations and then to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. In mating aggregations of some Pogonomyrmex harvester ants (P. desertorum and P. barbatus), communally displaying males compete for females ...

In order understand the evolution of complex societies, researchers are sequencing the genomes of social insects. The most recent data come from several species of ants, including the red harvester ...

Preface -- Introduction -- General considerations: Studies of appendages. Mandibles ; Antennae ; Wings ; Terminalia -- Character convergence -- Generic status and the subgenera: Genus Pogonomyrmex ...

Disease poses a threat to any society, and this threat is amplified for societies persisting in cramped quarters over extended periods of time. Highly social (eusocial) insects actively combat the ...

For anyone that wants to do this on the cheap, get a big glass jar and put a coke can in the center and pack sand around it (sand is better than dirt so that you can see the ants). Then scoop up some ...

Sexual conflict between two species can drive an evolutionary “bedroom battle royal,” leading to some crazy adaptations. Harvester ant queens steal sperm away from males of another species during ...