{"id":128040,"date":"2017-07-28T10:25:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T14:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=128040"},"modified":"2017-07-28T12:49:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:49:36","slug":"astonishing-army-ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/07\/astonishing-army-ants\/","title":{"rendered":"Astonishing Army Ants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kevin Keegan, a PhD student in ecology and evolutionary biology, tells visitors how to search for army ant guests around displays at the Biology\/Physics Building during UConn Extension Bug Week AntU Day on July 27, 2017. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"AntU170727b184\"<\/a>
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Katie Taylor, a PhD student in ecology and evolutionary biology, tells visitors about samples under a microscope at the Biology\/Physics Building during UConn Extension Bug Week AntU Day on July 27, 2017. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"AntU170727b107\"<\/a>
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Veronica Bueno, a PhD student in ecology and evolutionary biology, tells visitors about the Biodiversity Research Collections at the Biology\/Physics Building during UConn Extension Bug Week AntU Day on July 27, 2017. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"AntU170727b088\"<\/a>
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Brothers Knox, 4, and Lexin Mansell, 6, of Storrs, play a video game created by the Department of Digital Media and Design during UConn Extension Bug Week AntU Day at the Biology\/Physics Building on July 27, 2017. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"AntU170727b072\"<\/a>
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A guest of army ants known as a histler beetle, collected by Carl Rettenmeyer in Panama in 1956, on display during UConn Extension Bug Week AntU Day at the Biology\/Physics Building on July 27, 2017. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"AntU170727b035\"<\/a>
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Sarah Goldstein, a PhD student in molecular and cell biology, tells visitors about Atta Texana ants during UConn Extension Bug Week AntU Day at the Biology\/Physics Building on July 27, 2017. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"AntU170727b019\"<\/a>
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Visitors walk past ants projected onto the floor of the Biology\/Physics Building during UConn Extension Bug Week AntU Day on July 27, 2017. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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AntU Day on July 27, one of the main events of this year’s Bug Week<\/a>, was an invitation to explore and engage in activities focused on the complex biological systems of army ants and their hundreds of associated species, or ‘guests.’<\/p>\n

AntU is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation to the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History and is intended to preserve and curate the University’s collection of 2 million army and guests that resulted from 50 years of fieldwork in Central and South America by the late Professor Carl Rettenmeyer and his wife Marian. The\u00a0exhibition<\/a> of specimens from the collection, located in the Biology\/Physics Building, opened to the public for the first time in April.<\/p>\n

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