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Mega-colonies

  A version of this article was originally published in the December 2017 issue of BBC Wildlife Magazine A subterranean city, a labyrinth of tunnels and chambers, home to some 300,000 inhabitants. At its centre, an aging queen surrounded by daughters; her protectors, foragers and nursemaids. Inside and out, plunderers …

A little camp carabid…

During our Myanmar expedition, the forest of Tamanthi provided many rich pickings and a number of the specimens I collected there are turning out to be undescribed. One day, near the end of our stay there, I was rooting around the stump of a felled tree near our camp and …