The Phytophactor

Ants! You really do have to admire them! Although tiny they function as a super organism, and when you've spent any time in the tropics ...

One of the best things about rain forest when you're teaching or studying rainforest is the myriad of interactions among organisms. Y...

One of the more distinctive and typical features of the tropics is the inordinate prevalence of ants. This comes to mind because one little ...

Always ask the students what country in South American they would hit if the traveled straight south from Chi-town. It's a trick questio...

As a tropical biologist, TPP has a lot of experience with ants, and while fascinating creatures, a lot of these experiences have not been go...

Gardening and field biology have some common ground; both make you get outside and interact with nature.  So TPP was replacing a rather sad ...

Insects are very interesting, especially those that interact with plants, but no question about it, ants are amazing in their biological div...