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Moffett, Mark W.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
World-renowned ecologist, explorer, and photojournalist Mark Moffett -- "the Indiana Jones of entomology -- returned to his home town of Beloit, Wisconsin, on Thursday, February 21, 2008, to receive the sixth annual Roy Chapman Andrews Society Distinguished Explorer Award.
Moffett is recognized as one of the world's most daring and adventurous scientist-explorers, with popular books, articles, TV segments, and over 500 published photos to his credit. He returned to Beloit to receive the award named for another Beloit-bred explorer-scientist, Roy Chapman Andrews.
PUBLICATIONS
- Moffett, M.W. 1984. Swarm raiding in a myrmicine ant. Naturwissenschaften 71: 588-589. [1984.]
- Moffett, M.W. 1985a. Behavioral notes on the asiatic harvesting ants Acanthomyrmex notabilis and A. ferox. Psyche 92: 165-180. [28.xi.1985.]
- Moffett, M.W. 1985b. Revision of the genus Myrmoteras (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 151:1-53.
- Moffett, M.W. 1986a. Observations on Lophomyrmex ants from Kalimantan, Java and Malaysia. Malayan Nature Journal 39: 207-211. [(28).ii.1986.]
- Moffett, M.W. 1986b. Trap-jaw predation and other observations on two species of Myrmoteras. Insectes Sociaux 33: 85-99. [(30).vi.1986.]
- Moffett, M.W. 1986c. Revision of the myrmicine genus Acanthomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 151: 55-89. [15.viii.1986.]
- Moffett, M.W. 1986d. Notes on the behavior of the dimorphic ant Oligomyrmex overbecki. Psyche 93: 107-116. [10.x.1986.]
- Moffett, M. W. 1986e. Evidence of workers serving as queens in the genus Diacamma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 93:151-152. [1986-10-10]
- Moffett, M.W. 1987. Behavior of the group-predatory ant Proatta butteli: an Old World relative of the attine ants. Insectes Sociaux 33 (1986): 444-457. [(30).vi.1987.]