Awhile ago I did a post about ant stridulation or ants communicating via sound. I recently found a couple more recordings of ants.
The first is a short piece on recording ants for KUER radio in Utah. Dr. Bernie Krause, a bioacoustician, talks about his experience recording in Cherry Creek, AZ in Western Soundscapes: Ants with ant sounds in the background. Unfortunately, he does not identify the ants.
Entomologist Hayward Spangler talks about a novel way of using his teeth as a way to pick up harvest ant stridulations. You can listen and download a mp3 file at NPR: Listening to Ants or listen here to same recording. (In case one of the links breaks in the future.)
You can also hear a recording of the harvester ant stridulations by Jeff Rice at Western Soundscape Archive
I just can’t get enough of listening to ants. How about you?