Monday, June 18, 2007

AntWeb

AntWeb

http://www.antweb.org

Become a myrmecologist and study ants, through AntWeb

Question. How many internet search engines have an ant name after them? At least one. AntWeb, based at The California Academy of Sciences has put together a KML file giving an overview of different ant species around the globe with each placemark showing a photo and link to further information. Approxmiately one thousand trillion ants are running around at any one time - one such ant, Proceratium google can be found in Madagascar.

http://earth.google.com/gallery/images/small/ant_web_sm.jpg

http://earth.google.com/gallery/images/large/ant_web_lg.jpg

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