treebranch

Dussutour, whose earlier work showed that leafcutter ants organize themselves into separate and tightly-regulated streams of load-carrying and unburdened individuals when traveling in opposite directions on wide paths, was curious about their dynamics on narrow paths such as the tip of a treebranch — the ant equivalent of a one-lane road.

everyone knows an ant can’t get stuck in traffic | clusterflock 2009

Dussutour, whose earlier work showed that leafcutter ants organize themselves into separate and tightly-regulated streams of load-carrying and unburdened individuals when traveling in opposite directions on wide paths, was curious about their dynamics on narrow paths such as the tip of a treebranch — the ant equivalent of a one-lane road.

everyone knows an ant can’t get stuck in traffic | clusterflock 2009

As if to oblige and spare me needless treebranch-scanning, the red-headed woodpecker swung into view after a mere minute or two and alighted photogenically in a tall, bare branch.

Woodpeckers I Have Known: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

I remembered just in time to duck where there is an overhanging treebranch at head height, and then the rest of the walk was plain sailing.

Archive 2004-11-01 neil h 2004

I remembered just in time to duck where there is an overhanging treebranch at head height, and then the rest of the walk was plain sailing.

The Darkness neil h 2004