Has anyone ever observed the ant-aphid mutualism, where ants "farm" aphids for their "honeydew"? I've seen it year after year in my garden, but I never photographed it until recently.

I recently took a picture of ants tending aphids on a camellia and then I wrote a post about this relationship on my tea blog.

I just deleted a few posts that I and a number of other users saw as overposting. It's fine to come here to promote your communities or projects, especially when they are ecology-related, but this is not the appropriate place to use as a place to post newsletters or dump mass-posted material. I did a quick google search and found that these posts ( Read more... )

I wrote a post on another blog (besides my Livejournal) which might be relevant to this community:

Sustainability: Building a Consensus Between Liberals and ConservativesI think this post is of particular interest to this community because I notice a strong tendency for people in this community to assume that caring about ecology necessarily ( Read more... )

eBird has put out a call to survey gulf coast birds in response to the BP Oil Spill ( Read more... )

OIL DISASTER - HOTLINES AND WEB SITES - U.S. GOV'T

THE BP "RESPONSE" WEB PAGE - BP

HOTLINES: CLEAN-UP JOBS, BP, LIASONS - www.oilspillrecovery.org

OFFSHORE DISASTER KILLING ALREADY-RARE SEA TURTLES - www.usclimatenetwork.org

DONATE HAIR, PANTY HOSE (lint, etc.) TO HELP SOP UP THE OIL!!! - (About hair mats)

If you have a good engineering idea as to how ( Read more... )

Hi!
I'd like to ask you to sign the international petition for saving of the unique forest at the Black sea (in Russia) http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-forests-of-Utrish

Thank you!

(  Information about the problem: )

Apologies for not being active in this community lately!

I want to let people know about an awesome service/website...it's called eBird, and it's run by Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology. It's a shared database of bird observations. Professional ornithologists and hobbyist birdwatchers alike are able to contribute--you go out into the ( Read more... )

Since September i've been working on a project. I have neglected posting about it here because i wanted to really dig in and understand it myself before i felt ready to share or debate.

Basically I want to redefine what we consider to be alive as our reasons for excluding what most consider "inanimate objects" just doesn't make sense to me and I ( Read more... )

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i was wondering what theory or theories you think are central to ecology or ecological disciplines ( Read more... )