Pebbles: Push-Pull-Drop

Long-legged Black Ant
Aphaenogaster cockerelli

ARIZONA, Pima County
Tucson, 475 N. Granada
2 August 1996
Collected by Steve Prchal poolside during the Invertebrates in
Conference Captivity Icebreaker.

Ants are known for their brute strength lifting things up to eight times their body weight. In the Sonoran desert, the entrance to the nest of this antis covered with small pebbles of a uniform size. The Yoeme people use these stones and silkmoth cocoons to create ceremonial rattles.


The Artists
Original Photography
Charles A. Hedgcock
gelatin silver photographs		 Base Structure Fabrication
Philip Joachim
welded steel
Photo Illustration
Michael Mayer
digital high resolution output		 Ant Habitat Research, Development and Construction
Steve Prchal
ants, plastics, gypsum cement, metals

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