Here it is, at long last Volume 9 No. 1 of "Notes from Underground". Since first coming online we have had a very good response and currently have close to 100 subscribers. This is far more than we expected at this point, and we are very pleased with the support. Since the first "issue" was put online there have been several changes that have occurred, most have been behind the scenes, primarily consisting of such things as reorganizing the site. The most obvious and to me most welcome change is the introduction of the listserv as a means of keeping you all updated on the changes as they occur. I was having nothing but trouble with the mass emailings and this should really help out with that, my thanks to Sanford Porter for setting up the listserv for us. If you haven't already subscribed to the listserv please do so you don't miss a single excitement filled issue of "Notes from Underground".
     Please remember to sign up on the listserv if you have not already done so, and even more importantly if you change email addresses it is critical that you update the subscription so you don't get dropped from the system. As has been my usual practice I will try to send out some sort of updates regularly, probably every few weeks, with major updates every couple of months. New material of a time sensitive nature will continue to be posted on the site at the earliest possible opportunity, so feel free to check often for changes. Major additions will be released every couple of months at which time the volume number will change as well.
     Here in the U.S the field-collecting season has pretty much ended, here in the west it was more than just dismal. The low rainfall made for some pretty sad looking habitat, fingers are crossed for some much needed rain this winter. Alex Wild has been running around somewhere south of the equator, and I am sure we can count him to fill us in on his explorations. I am sure that many of you have been wandering around in the field somewhere, lets hear some collecting reports.
     As always I need contributions, whatever you can send. We have done pretty good so far but for things to continue as they have, PLEASE take a few minutes and send something, anything is welcome. Working with all of you on "Notes from Underground" has been alot of fun, and I thank you all.




SPECIAL GUEST INTRODUCTION
E. O. Wilson


Announcements & Bulletin Board
Ant Course 2003
New Book: "Ants of New Mexico" by William McKay
Field Trips in Nicaragua 2003 Museo Entomologico De Leon

Collecting Reports

Gordon C. Snelling
Spring and early Summer 2002
Whetstone Mtns.

Nicholas Blacker
Collecting in Michigan

Coming Soon

Editorial Policy
Policy


Feature Articles
Again On The Dinosaur Ants, Fossil And Extant  by Cesare Baroni Urbani
A Visit to Thomas Say's Home by Roy R. Snelling


Field Observations
Collembola and Army Ants by John Lattke
An Odontomachus Mystery by Gordon C. Snelling
A Suspicious Prenolepis by Alex Wild
Observations during a Neivamyrmex Raid by Zach Prusak  
An unusual color variation in Pogonomyrmex badius by Zach Prusak
Observations on Dorymyrmex insanus in Arizona by Dale Ward
The pains and pleasure of Bornean fieldwork by Steve Cook
Collembola and ants revisited by Terry Mcglynn
Interactions between Acromyrmex coronatus, and a Neotropical army ant, Eciton burchelli by Alan San Juan

Field Work
1998 Irian Jaya (Freeport) Rap: The Ants by Roy R. Snelling
The Social Hymenoptera (Insecta) of Lakekamu by Roy R. Snelling
The Quest For Pogonomyrmex anzensis Cole by Gordon C. Snelling
Collecting Trip To Guana Island, Oct. 2002 by Roy R. Snelling


Humor from the Field
Ethnomyrmecology by Alex Wild


Information Needed
Origins of The Hostility Assay by Chris Starr
References needed by Nicolas Degallier
Pest Ant Records Needed by James Wetterer


Links and Resources
Links


Literature reviews
"Australian ants, their biology and identification by Steve Shattuck"
  by James C. Trager   
"Fire Ants by Stephen Welton Taber" by Mark Deyrup
Response to Mark Deyrups review by Stephen Taber


Member List
Members


Methods and Madness
Subterranean Ants: The Last Frontier  by Hamish Robertson
High Resolution Macrophotography Made Easy by Jack Longino



Mug shots


Name that Ant


Opinion / Correspondence

Origins of Myrmicaria by Dinah Davidson


Photographs
Ant Class 2001


Members Ant Photographs
Gordon C. Snelling
Alex Wild


Recent Literature
R. R. Jackson


Specimens Needed
Bothriomyrmex needed Dmitry A. Dubovikoff
In need of Army Ants Gordon C. Snelling
In need of Camponotus Dinah Davidson
In need Linepithema Alex Wild
Leptothorax needed André Francoeur
Neotropical Monomorium Wanted Fernando Fernandez
Polyrhachis needed Rudy Kohout
Specimens needed Roy R. Snelling  


Suggestions


Works in Progress
Peter Berx 1  2
Leticia Rios Casanova
John R. Fellowes
Fernando Fernández C
Jack Longino
John Lattke
John C. Moser