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Today Houston is hit hard by hurricane Ike. In the Netherlands we cannot imagine the speed of the storm. But we understand the risc of living behind see walls and levees. My thoughts are with those ten thousands of people who stay foot. In an earlier blog item I wrote about the spread of crazy rasberry ants in Houston. The ants are distributed in the suburbes near streams and rivers. Exactly the

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Ant-maps.com | It seems that ants can survive large wildfires. But how about volcanoes? These natural disasters create so much heat and dust that practically all life will be toasted. Or not?The theory is controversial, but the German geologist Ulrich Schreiber from the University of Duisburg thinks wood ants can predict volcanic eruptions. He describes in his novel how wood ants predict a

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Ant-maps | Wildfires are an important factor in the distribution of wood ants (Formica rufa group). According to Red wood ants in North America (PDF) did wildfires play an important role in North America. In this region wildfires are a lot more common than in Europe, so this could effect the spread through the continent. (More about this) But wildfires do not only have negative effects:Negative

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Beware of the running crazy ant. Soon there will also be an ant stuff store. To start with there is a 'crazy ant' collection. The shirt here can be found here. There is also an ant-swarm design and a processor eating Nester ant. Enjoy!

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It seems that the Crazy Rasberry Ant does not like Houston Downtown. Instead it colonizes the suburbs. This fact can be useful for pest controllers and entomologists. The map below shows a general geological map with rivers and streams and the locations where the ants are found until 2007. (See below for the internet resources). Comparing these maps and Google Earth maps learn that the crazy

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Original at Ant-maps | The Crazy Rasberry ant Paratrechina sp. nr. pubens is not just a Rasberry ant (Paratrechina pubens). This funny ant does look like the small Rasberry ant, but it's behavior is strange. So strange that entomologists think is another species. So it's scientific name is Paratrechina sp. nr. pubens. (Paratrechina species near pubens).The crazy rasberry ants were imported to the

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Earlier this week I published some ant-road maps on Ant-maps.com. One of these maps shows the nest and ant-path structure from the supre colonie 'Ravensheide 1'. The structure counted at least 18 nest, including some nest one meter high. Some protected by metal cages to protect the nest against hungry woodpeckers. Last year some of the nest were disapeared or a lot smaller than before. And today,

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Original at Ant-maps.com | Ants can help crime investigators with solving a crime. They will tell you if there are small remains from the victim on the murder weapon. But the insects on a decomposing body tell so much more. The insects and maggots tell for example when the victim died and even under what circumstances the body was left. A body found in the dessert with maggots of houseflies on it

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Digging in the notes from the last 16 years I found sites that I did not add to ant-maps yet. One site is the Leudal, close to Roermond. Two others are The Borkeld and Herikerberg close to Markelo. The notes were taken without any knowledge of the site. The proportions of the simple maps are bad that it is impossible to find out where these nest were. Even with the help of Google Earth, that

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Welcome at ant-maps.com. This website shows you how wood ants build super-colonies of ant-hives. The image at your the right shows a population of these ants close to Winterswijk in the Netherlands. The nest are connected with paths or ant-roads. And amazingly the roads do all lead to the two largest nests in the center of the

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