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Kwapich Lab at the University of Central Florida
Every ant nest is an ecosystem. The short video above shows a handful of myrmecophiles found in the top chambers of a single Liometopum apiculatum colony. Look for ant crickets (Myrmecophilus manni), myrmecoid and limuloid staphylinid beetles (Sceptobius schmitti and Dinardilla liometopi), one myrmecophilous spider, and one myrmecophilous velvet mite. *also shown, one host ant and one rogue termite

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My kingdom for a queen

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Noteworthy Excavations

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Research Scenes

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Field Sites and Trips

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Class Field Trips

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Guests and spider heart-breakers
Veromessor pergandei remove spider webs
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Friends in the Forest

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FL harvester ant mating flight











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