Progress Report and Crafty Ants
Oh, my blog is so sad and lonely these days. I'd better start posting
again. I did slow down a bit when I broke my arm but am now well
enough that I made it to the roller derby tryout on Sunday. I find out
tomorrow if I made it or not. I have definitely lost my mind.
I've been working, too. I've been training Noah, the new grad student
in our lab, to ID ants, and he is going through my canopy samples,
sorting by genus. I also finally got around to pulling out all of the
Cephalotes specimens from the canopy samples to send to Scott Powell.
And I have been working on my Gnamptogenys, a surprisingly difficult
genus. I'm not sure why, exactly. They are large, distinctive ants
with beautiful and diverse sculpture patterns. And I have a key
(although I really wish I had the new key). And yet somehow they end
up being difficult. I am working on an interactive key which I will
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