Navajo Nature
Welcome to Navajo Nature. Here you will find information about the natural environments, flora and fauna found within the borders of the Navajo Reservation. The flagship project for Navajo …
Navajo Reservation Ant Species - Navajo Nature
The Navajo Ant Project's goal is to integrate traditional Navajo cultural values with the modern scientific method as it explores the ant biodiversity on the Navajo Reservation. The Navajo Ant …
Navajo Nature Collaborators
What - and who - is behind Navajo Nature? The website is a collaborative effort. It involves people and institutions that are all working towards creating a valuable research, information and …
Forelius pruinosus (Roger) - Navajo Nature
Biology Forelius pruinosus, senso lato, is an arid, open habitat ant that thrives in hot and dry conditions. Forelius species in the southwestern U.S. are active in the hottest part of the day, …
Camponotus modoc - Navajo Nature
The Modoc were a tribe of Native Americans that inhabited southwestern Oregon and northeastern California. The species name presumably reflects upon the region where the type …
Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Cresson) - navajonature.org
Additional Notes Pogonomyrmex are abundant and often conspicuous ants in arid low-latitude habitats of the Americas. Cole (1968) offered this well written general introduction to the …
Myrmecocystus mendax Wheeler, W.M. - navajonature.org
Myrmecocystus mendax can be separated from other Navajo Reservation Myrmecocystus by a combination of their small eyes, pilosity and their coloration. The body and appendages of the …
Liometopum apiculatum Mayr - navajonature.org
Information about the biology of the Navajo Reservation ant Liometopum apiculatum.
David Lubertazzi, Ph.D - navajonature.org
Harvard University, Cambridge MA (contact information)Website Coordinator; Species Page Contributor; Global Ant Project; David is a myrmecologist and is currently a post-doctoral …
Hypoponera inexorata - Navajo Nature
Information about the biology of the Navajo Reservation ant Hypoponera inexorata.