{"id":37,"date":"2009-01-26T17:29:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T22:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172468002"},"modified":"2013-12-17T20:13:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T01:13:43","slug":"field-talk-lizard-evolution-and-the-ants-in-your-pants-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/field-talk-lizard-evolution-and-the-ants-in-your-pants-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizard Evolution and the Ants In Your Pants Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-38\" style=\"float: left; padding: 3px; margin: 4px; border: 2px double #fbfbfc;\" title=\"Lizard on Log\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.org\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/lizard-on-log_sm.jpg\" \/>Invasive red fire ants from South America have become a major pest in southwestern U.S., bringing their stinging venom and crop-destroying ways. In this edition of Field Talk, we catch up with Tracy Langkilde, assistant professor of biology at Penn State University, who studies one of the ants\u2019 seemingly unlikely targets: eastern fence lizards. The lizards have evolved a novel twitching response that flicks attacking ants off their bodies. But in her paper in the January issue of Ecology, Dr. Langkilde explains that since native ants don\u2019t normally attack lizards, this behavior must have evolved in a very short time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esajournals.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1890\/08-0355.1\">Invasive fire ants alter behavior and morphology of native lizards<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Tracy Langkilde<\/div>\n<p>Ecology 2009 90:1, 208-217<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invasive red fire ants from South America have become a major pest in southwestern U.S., bringing their stinging venom and crop-destroying ways. In this edition of Field Talk, we catch up with Tracy Langkilde, assistant professor of biology at Penn<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/field-talk-lizard-evolution-and-the-ants-in-your-pants-dance\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[204,180,202,157,49,50,77,203,163,168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}