The Entomological Society of America (ESA) is the largest organization in the world serving the professional and scientific needs of entomologists and people in related disciplines. Founded in 1889, ESA today has more than 6,000 members affiliated with educational institutions, health agencies, private industry, and government.

If you have followed our blog you know we are not averse to celebrating the normally less celebrated corners of the natural world.  We are therefore not surprised to learn of this organization, and are pleased to point to its entertaining and informative contest on YouTube. The sample video below won the Open category, and shows a swarm of predatory ponerine ants searching the African savanna for their prey–termites. When they locate a colony, they bite and sting their victims, and then return to the nest with jaws loaded with dead prey.