Good, the protein profile of our extracted venom agrees with the pure fire ant venom protein we bought from Vespa Labs. They wouldnt tell me how they extracted the damn thing.

The insect pictured on the last post that looks like a flea actually is a phorid fly; apparently we found a totally new species. Some specimens were sent to England to be analysed and described if so. They seem to be fairly common inside fire ant mounds in Brazil, but are hard to catch.

Today I am going to cut some mounds in half and take a few pictures from the exposed structure; will post some of those later.