This site is about ants. As obvious as it seems, we prefer to think of this site as a community-based tool about ants. The final goal is to provide the tools needed for any myrmecologist to curate their collection, identify the ants, check the ID with quality images, compare the data in distribution maps and know if the finding is new for a given region.

To achieve this, we need to:

• define the different regions to study
• create a list of existing ants for the region
• develope identification keys
• image specimens of all the existing species, three castes [at least!]
• create a web-based database to store the data
• ...

This work is huge, but we think its achievable if we work together. We are developing several tools that will let us:

• belong to this community
• add their own info to the web [photos, database distribution records, stories, bibliography, videos, etc...]
• comment/participate in the info offered by others
• develope shared projects with other members
• ....

In the next pages we will try to explain how to use the different tools to perform the tasks above.