In
my world ants have always had a very special place. Better part of my childhood
was spent observing ants than anything else. I am also quite fascinated by myrmecomorphy,
that is, the insects that mime ants, the most common being spiders and wasps. It
is in this context I am glad to inform that a spellbinding website, world’s
first ever ant map showing the distribution of ants around the globe, was
launched yesterday by the University of Hong Kong. http://antmaps.org/.
It is a colourful interactive online map which took four years to complete, and
displays the geographic locations of nearly 15,000 types of ants. What more can
one ask for?
Would
you be calm and placid
If
you were full of formic acid?
(Ogden Nash)
