{"id":73,"date":"2010-01-22T14:31:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2010-03-04T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T14:42:24","slug":"colony-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/colony-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Colony Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The godfather of entomology, E.O. Wilson, has published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fiction\/features\/2010\/01\/25\/100125fi_fiction_wilson?currentPage=all\" target=\"_blank\">a fantastic story in the New Yorker Magazine<\/a> detailing the life and death of an ant colony. My favourite line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When defending the nest, the elders were among the most suicidally aggressive. They were obedient to a simple truth that separates our two species: humans send their young men to war; ants send their old ladies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6 id=\"TixyyLink\">Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fiction\/features\/2010\/01\/25\/100125fi_fiction_wilson?currentPage=all#ixzz0dN801Mhe\">http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fiction\/features\/2010\/01\/25\/100125fi_fiction_wilson?currentPage=all#ixzz0dN801Mhe<\/a><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Gliding-Ant-Ecuador20090501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-77\" title=\"Gliding Ant - Ecuador\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Gliding-Ant-Ecuador20090501-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Gliding Ant Formicidae Ecuador\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Gliding-Ant-Ecuador20090501-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Gliding-Ant-Ecuador20090501-500x332.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Gliding-Ant-Ecuador20090501.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/myrmecos.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/22\/e-o-wilson-writes-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Wild at the Myrmecos Blog<\/a> for the link!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The godfather of entomology, E.O. Wilson, has published a fantastic story in the New Yorker Magazine detailing the life and death of an ant colony. My favourite line: When defending the nest, the elders were among the most suicidally aggressive. They were obedient to a simple truth that separates our two species: humans send their <a href='http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/colony-life\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,4,16],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-entomology","category-pop-culture","tag-formicidae","category-29-id","category-4-id","category-16-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}