Exploring Backyard Ants: Pogonomyrmex

Arizona has the most ant diversity in the USA, with over 300 known species. This video profiles Pogonomyremex, or "pogos" commonly found in the Sonoran Desert of the Southwestern United States. Entomologists and UA Phd Students Kim Franklin and Chris Schmidt, and ToL Learning Materials Editor and Educator Lisa Schwartz spent some time in Chris's backyard observing, discussing and questioning Pogonomyremex behavior.

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Exploring Backyard Ants: Pogonomyrmex is an episode from Exploring Arizona Life Science Research and Biodiversity with the Tree of Life Web Project by Lisa Schwartz.

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This episode was published on May 1, 2007.

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