Posts Tagged: morphology
News Flash: Don't Miss 'Current Techniques in Morphology'

You won't want to miss this. A year-long project on "Current Techniques in Morphology" was posted...
One of the articles in the journal deals with "Jumping and Grasping: Universal Locking Mechanism in Insect Legs." This image is a banded-winged grasshopper, family Acrididae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Behold, the Big-Eyed Ant (And Brendon Boudinot Will Talk About It)

It's not just about the sting or those big eyes. Ant specialists and other researchers also hone...
This is a big-eyed ant, Pseudomyrmex boopis. Alexander Wild, who received his doctorate in entomology from UC Davis and is now curator of entomology, University of Austin, Texas, captured this image in Armenia, Belize. See more of his images at alexanderwild.com. (Copyrighted by Alex Wild and used with permission)