Entries Tagged as 'ants'

Big Ants 2008!

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments · ants, exotics

It’s True. The Great Penny came through for the second year in a row!! Her weekend off from work coincided with a thunderstorm or two in Southern Texas, and she was able to gather a mess of queen leaf-cutter ants. In fact she included [on her livejournal] a description of what she had [...]

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A Colony Attacked

July 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments · ants, dragonfly, gathering methods

This might not seem a dramatic image. It was the site of a great catastrophe, at least from the perspective of the carpenter ant colony that lived there. I am what befell that colony.
I’d first turned over the log on impulse, and replaced it carefully when I found a seething mass of large, winged black [...]

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ANOTHER new edible insect in the mail! The Big Ants

July 8th, 2007 · 3 Comments · ants, exotics, gathering methods

I’ve been sitting on this pretty amazing news for a little while now, getting ready to blog it, as the kids say. First I’d gotten the chapulines (picked up another 4.5 pounds from the Mexican market just today), then the cicadas, and then these big ants. By the Fall I hope to receive two or [...]

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