A quick round-up of what I've been missing

So while I was gone there were a bunch of interesting posts from the blogosphere. A quick round-up:

• Ward, P.S. 2007. Phylogeny, classification, and species-level taxonomy of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1668: 549-563. (Via Myrmecos)
  

• The ants of Paraguay (Via Myrmecos)
  

• Aleksiev AS, Longdon B, Christmas MJ, Sendova-Franks AB, Franks NR. Individual and collective choice: parallel prospecting and mining in ants. Naturwissenschaften. 2007 Dec 18 [Epub ahead of print]

• Meet the Beetles--And Their Crazy Family Tree ScienceNOW and A Comprehensive Phylogeny of Beetles Reveals the Evolutionary Origins of a Superradiation (Science)
  

• Waiting on Weevils If you’ve got weevils to identify, patience is a virtue. At current rates of taxonomic description it’ll only take 650 more years to name all the weevil species. (Via Myrmecos)

• Beetles and Assassin bugs (Via Bug Girl's Blog)

• The Long and Thorny Road to Publication in Quality Journals Thomas C. Erren

• JoVE -- This is the official blog of JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments. Looks like fun

• New pictures at Ant Visions