AMES, Iowa – A research associate in the Iowa State University entomology department will hit the airwaves as the host of an internationally broadcast documentary program about insects. Brendan Dunphy ...
Ants send messages to colony members through odor compounds that contain alkenes, chemicals that help nestmates recognize one ...
A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats ...
The Mofu, who live in the Mandara Mountains of northern Cameroon, have developed a rich lore about their insects and have a particularly impressive entomological vocabulary. This may be in part ...
Rove beetles cloak themselves in ant pheromones to sneak into the insects’ nests for protection. But in an odd catch-22, that makes them forever reliant on their hosts ...
Use a map to locate the Mandara Mountains in Cameroon. Using a world map, have students first locate Africa and then Cameroon (the section of land between Nigeria and Chad). Finally have them locate ...