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GUESTBOOK      Thank you for visiting our pages. We would love it if you would Add to this guestbook we are keeping!      Please note there have been several entries in recent days which were clearly spam, any entries which even appear to be spam will be removed immediately. In addition please note that due to recent major spam abuse on this site HTML comments are no longer permitted. Thank you for your understanding. Now , these are very good sites ! I hope the " New World Army Ants " - site will get finished very soon , but now , it is already a must ! And the " Notes from Underground " , everybody should read them , not only the new On-line version , but also the old printed version ( You can find them on the " Blast from the Past " - page ! ) . Keep up the good work ! Van der Stappen Marc <marc.stappen@pandora.be> Gent, Belgium - Hi everybody! I happened to love all kinds of ants, and specielly army ants efter seeing a Macgyver episode =) So if anyone have any movies or good pictures pls dont hesitate to mail them or the url where you found them to me =) Meskalin@telia.com Peter <Meskalin@telia.com> Sweden - Hello, I`m from Germany and found this Page through Surfing the WWW but i cannot understand 100% what this Page are Saying, because my English isn`t good enough - is there an translation in German avvaillable ? Frank <suchm@alraundesign.de> Singen, BW Germany - I can't let Jerry Feldner be the only person from the herpetological community to visit and comment on this site. Very good job, Gordon. I haven't seen it all, but I've seen enough to understand that theres a lot of information about ants. One question-Can an army ant actually hold a hand grenade? Keep up the good work. Brian Hubbs Tempe, AZ USA - This is a very nice site. This site will help me very much when I get my Pogo Barbatus and hopfuly I will finally get a colony. KEEP IT UP! Brian Cho <xxxlthugzruslxxx@aol.com> Garden Grove, CA USA - The only site that had info about Eciton Buchelli plus the amazing pictures!!!! I'd love it if you added movies =8] Keep it up ! MBH Kuwait, KWT KWT - This is a very intresting page. I enjoy it and keep reading it. I just sent a mail to Dr. Julian Watkins at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, asking for a confusion from his keys and this page keys. I will send the text of the mail to you asking too for help in that respect. I hope you can clarify the confusion. Also I send to you the same request for reprints and books, ants and precise localities of Venezuelan and Peruvian ants. "Dear Dr. Watkins, after a long "search" now I got your e-mail address. I hope I am not causing you any trouble by writing to you by this mean. Long time ago I requested and received by air mail some of your paper and your book on New world army ants. A few weeks ago I printed the key to the genera of Ecitoninae in "Notes from Underground". I saw some very important changes and when I tried to key out my previously identified ants, starting with what I had as males of Cheliomyrmex megalonyx, it came to my surprise (with the new key) to be Eciton, but when those specimens were taken to the specific keys in the book, there was not match for the specimens with the Eciton species key. Could you tell me where is the "mistake" if any, and what it might have happen? I didn't want to go further with my males samples of other previously identified Ecitoninae. I have more than 200 samples (including workers and males) and would like yo have then well identified. In any case, would you be so kind as to send to me your lasts years papers and if possible your books. Also I shall be very grateful if you can send to me some ants either in alcohol or dry (preferable in alcohol since almost all my collection, following Clark and the Wheelers advice is in alcohol. I can not offer you any cash payment for the books or the ants since we have in this country a very strong foreign currency control. We can't get dollars or euros for anything (journals, scientific or cultural meetings, books, medicine treatment or medicaments, etc). All have to be prepaid in Venezuelan bolivars. In exchange I can send to you some publications on forestry and/or medicine. Finally I would like to have a list of the localities of Ecitoninae and other ants that you may have from Venezuela and Peru, for I am planning to publish a check-list or catalogue of Venezuelan and Peruvian ants with the most precise possible localities, past and present, especially for the reason that many of the earlier entomologist and collectors that visited those countries late XIX and early XX century collected in places that not longer exist as natural environments. Thank you very much in advance. Very truly yours. Pedro José Salinas Universidad de Los Andes Centro de Postgrado Apartado 241 Mérida Venezuela E-mail: psalinas@ula.ve " Thank you very much in advance. Yours sincerely Prof. Pedro josé Salinas (PhD Lond) Universidad de Los Andes Apartado 241 Mérida Venezuela E-mail: psalinas@ula.ve Pedro José Salinas <psalinas@ula.ve> MÉRIDA, MÉRIDA VENEZUELA - Loved your website - really nice and fresh-looking! Guys, keep on doing the same superb thing! Best website templates online - http://www.alfatemplates.com . Unique WebSite Development - http://www.davir.com Richard Henkers <richard@alfatemplates.com> USA - Not only to enlarge our knowledge on ants, but to aproximate and say humanize myrmecologists! David Lapola <dmlapola@rc.unesp.br> Rio Claro, SP Brazil - A nicely constructed website. Very informative and the photos are very clear. Richard Patrock <patrock@mail.utexas.edu> Austin, TX USA - Hey Mr.Gordon! Can you write the deffinitions of some of those words? I am only a child Emma <emmzy93@netscape.net> Singapore, SIN Singapore - Good work always come from a lot efforts. Keep doing!!! Jim <Jim4567@yahoo.com> USA - Cool website Gordon. Matt Porter <msekcal4@juno.com> Highland, Ca USA - great site keep up the good work! Dan Westforth <sale@westforthsports.com> gary, in USA - This site is very thorough and very engaging. I have researched Army Ants for a long time and this site is one of my most referenced. stephen duke <duke385204@yahoo.com> boston, MA USA - Your site is really good. You're welcome to visit my humble site too. Greetings! discus <aquadesign@wanadoo.fr> bordeaux, fr - Wonderfull site, similar one is done also for Dorylus and Aenictus of Western Africa and Congo Basin of Brian Taylor, I hope one somebody will be able to construct something like that for Asian Aenictus. I love army ants because I love myrmecophilous Staphylinidae. Please keep it updated. Peter Hlavac <peter.hlavac@scprbk.sk> Kosice, Slovakia - I enjoyed my visit. Greetings from Olga Katzen - Katzen Europe - I am trying to find an e-mail address for gordon. HELP carl rettenmeyer <crett@earthlink.net> USA - - nice site Michito <michito@ingekoschmueller.de> Germany, Germany - Nice Ants website, nicely done! Michi <michnyx@hotpop.com> USA - Dear Gordon! Thank for the help, and for the information on yours site. Very useful site! Once again thank. Yours Dmitry Dmitry A. Dubovikoff <dubovikoff@yandex.ru> St.Petersburg, Russia - nice site keep up good work! i love ants! calufresh <calufresh@yahoo.com> PA USA - we need this in German nice site Jacob Hamburg, Germany - these sites make life interesting! good information. chris denver, us USA - Great start on the sort of resource it would eventually be good to have for all ants. Keep up the good work! James C. Trager <james.trager@mobot.org> Pacific , MO USA - This is a great site that I hope continues to expand! I enjoyed very much the account of the P. anzensis rediscovery, as I am very familiar with Split Mtn. from my childhood. The "Works In Progress" section is VERY worthwhile and I also enjoyed "A Suspicious Prenolepis." Please send an email when new editions "eclose." Henrik Kibak <henrik_kibak@csumb.edu> Seaside, CA USA - Good job, Gordon! :) Ant An Ant Farm, CA USA - I HAVE VISITED YOU SITE AND WAS VERY PLEASE WITH IT. SINCE I LIVE ON A HORSE FARM, I AM VERY INTERESETED IN FINDING WAYS TO CONTROL HARMFUL INSECTS AND PROTECT THE BENIFICIAL ONES. FRANK MCNEAL <F.A.MCNEAL@WORLDNET.ATT.NET> MONCKS CORNER, S.C. USA - Hello nice Site !!!!!! I am very interest for ants ,my farforite spezies is Messor structor and barbarus , Myrmica rubra and Lasius niger and Acromyrex octospinosus , Leptothorax nylanderi!!! I have some colonies in some Formicars !!!!!!I hope her interesting side remains longer exists and becomes aktuell Infos !!!!!! I have a forum declared German young and old ants interested knowledge and observations in him above exchanges it would please me if they pure-looked once !!!as scientific advisers, Professor is sometimes Dr. Buschinger of the German ant-protection-attendants on the spot also !! I apologize here for my bad English !! They make further so interesting myrmecolgie contributions !!! Thanks and good bye !!!! Michael Schön Michael Schön <Schoen-Kassel@t-online.de> Kassel, Hessen Germany - Aloha, waiting at the airport I surfed your site. Well done. Keep it up, I will bookmark it at home. Mahalo Michael Lebensversicherung Blumenversand <tk@blumenversand.tk> Munich, Bavaria Germany - I'm glad to see Notes from underground on the web. Your site is very usefull for an amateur. Thank you and good work. Bertrand Chateigner <bertrand.chateigner@club-internet.fr> Nantes, France - Great to see "Notes from the Underground" back to the scene. Hope to see more and more "good" informations in the future Daniel Cherix <Daniel.Cherix@ie-zea.unil.ch> Lausanne, Switzerland - Great Site, Ants always have intrested me. I keep local species of ants in terraiums myself. Fascinating insects they are. Joe <phinneyl@msn.com> Pylesville, MD USA - Is there a similar site, but about leaf cutting ants? arbizu <aldebaran500@hotmail.com> olivos, argentina - muy, muy bueno. Lástima que cuando menciona Argentina no lo marca en el mapa- (you mention Argentina but no points are found on maps) anyway first class. congratulations. arbizu <aldebaran500@hotmail.com> olivos, argentina - Thanks for a future resource site. Lester G. Milroy III <Les4toads@aol.com> Apple Valley, CA USA - Congratulations! Your site have an interesting proposal. Zara, Fernando José <fjzara@rc.unesp.br > Rio Claro, SP Brazil - Thanks for providing this interesting ant resource. Gerry Rising <insrisg@acsu.buffalo.edu> Buffalo, NY USA - The site is good! I like the web site of the ants! I see ants during much of the day time. The ants do make trails and the trails have many ants following on them. I like the ants. Senghi Larditu Jaffna, Sri Lanka - Fine! All my compliments! Wish you success in this work and I hope this will appear regularly. Ivan Petrov <petrov@bf.bio.bg.ac.yu> Belgrade, Yugoslavia USA - I would like information about ants roaming Argentina, Uruguay. thank you. arbizu <aldebaran500@hotmail.com> olivos, argentina - Gordon, a very informative and interesting site. I haven't finished reading yet but I wonder if the so-called "Bullet Ants" of Central America are included. Jerry Feldner <enviroherp@aol.com> Tempe, , AZ USA - Hi! Ok site but would be nice with more pics and perhaps some movies with the ants on raid. Btw this is the only site ive found about armyants =( Peter <none> Sweden - Nice page cousin, look forward to seeing the completed version. Bud Gotwald <hlg501@aol.com> USA - Nice site and good reference source! Justin Schmidt <ponerine@dakotacom.net> Tucson, AZ USA - Keep up the good work! Insectclopedia Canada - Nice job so far! Dave Taylor <bugguy135@aol.com> CA USA - great webb!but should add more piccies of the ants!then it will b kewl!newae,a great website for all to share!;) lin shuli <gilmore_alsl@hotmail.com> clementi, singapore - Gordon, Nice site. Keep up the great work! Slan, Michael Michael Duffy <cosgrach@tsoft.com> Belmont, CA USA - A very informative site. Good job. Zanti Agent Sacramento, CA USA - Friday, March 29, 2002 at 12:19:56 (EST) Thanks to Matt Wright for the pearl script that runs this Guest Book, this script and many others are available from Matt's Script Archive.