Etiqueta: hormigas

Ant Thrills: Seeing Leaf-Cutter Ants through an Artist’s Eyes

17. junio 2011

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Ant Thrills: Seeing Leaf-Cutter Ants through an Artist’s Eyes

ByJessica Wapner When Catherine Chalmers headed to Costa Rica for the third time this past January, she had a script in mind that told a very specific story: the stripping of nature. With a cast of hundreds, if not thousands, she would film a leafy branch being reduced to wood to represent the larger picture of clear-cutting taking place worldwide. That wasn’t quite how things went, largely because her cast refused to follow her script. “Every narrative that I have planned, they always rewrite it,” says Chalmers. But such problems are to be expected when your cast is made up[...] 

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Hermandad de tejedoras

19. mayo 2011

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Hermandad de tejedoras

National Geographic, Mayo 2011 Es posible que las hormigas tejedoras perfeccionaran las redes sociales con una variedad sorprendente de habilidades comunicativas. Por Douglas H. Chadwick/ Fotografías de Mark W. Moffett Esta es la versión en insecto de apretar un tubo de pegamento. Esta tejedora adulta en Australia sostiene en sus mandíbulas una larva que produce seda y unta la secreción pegajosa de la larva para unir las hojas para el nido de la colonia. Pocos animales tienen técnicas de construcción tan intrincadas. Si algún día los extraterrestres llegaran a la Tierra, que[...] 

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