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Huge colonies of leaf-cutter ants (Atta spp.) are scattered in the lowland tropical forests of Central and South America. These colonies can be as large as a house, although the size is hard to visualize because they are underground.
The ants are active day and night, often using the same pathways, and I’ve seen places where they have worn trails six inches deep into the soil. They are always busy harvesting leaves of almost any plant and bringing them back to the nest.
Remarkably, they are not eating the leaves but using them to grow fungi. In the nest, they mash up the leaves and use them to grow a specific type of fungus that they use as their only food source. They are, in fact, fungus farmers, not leaf eaters.
Captured this photograph of members of the Langstone Cutters Rowing Club starting on a practice session from Langstone slipway.
The building in the background is the former Langstone Mill, dating from around 1730 and now a private residence.
Amazing to watch this bee repeatedly cutting notches out of leaves (in just a few seconds) and then carrying them to this hole in a garage wall, 15ft away.
For 'Macro Mondays' theme of 'Cutter'
How things have changed over a lifetime!
Then any food leftover was put into a basin, covered with a piece of muslin, and stored on the cool slate slab shelf in the pantry - that is if there was anything left over which was very rare.
Now we can wrap it in metal foil and put it in the refrigerator. A plastic dispenser holds the foil we use - 30cm wide and 50m long. Cutting it used to be a pain but now the dispenser flap there is a metal cutting strip. You open the lid, pull out the length of foil needed and then snap the lid down hard. The cutter does its job and you have the piece of foil you need.
In an attempt to recycle as much as possible, the plastic dispenser goes into one bin - except for that metal cutting edge in the lid. Using pliers I extract that and drop it into another recycling bin, but not before rolling or folding the metal cutting strip!
So, what you see here is a piece of rolled cutting edge from the foil dispenser - obviously not all of the edge.
Russian Industar 61 L/Z 2.8/50mm lens ....................... about 2 inches
impressions @ street
Museum Port Oevelgönne, Hamburg
+ Deep sea fishing cutter HF.294.
HF.294. a few minutes later:
Today's Macro Mondays theme is "Cutter".
I was struggling for an idea. I didn't want to turn the lawn mower upside down and macro the blade, or try to get the hedge trimmer teeth to look interesting. Sadly a knife looked like the only option until I found these minute scissors on the hall carpet.
I've set the doll's house scissors on the blade of some normal sized kitchen scissors. They are tiny!!!
To please children, prepare wavy vegetables. Guaranteed succes. "Cutter is the theme of the week". HMM!
My wife suggested her biscuit cutters for the theme #Circles in #MacroMondays. They are circular and I thought they mad an interesting abstract macro in monochrome. Hope you enjoy!
These square pastry cutters are my entry for this week's "Macro Mondays" group challenge theme of "Member's Choice - Found in the Kitchen". HMM
A 5" wire cutter plier and framers hanging wire. Tip of plier to green margin is 1.5".
group: #MacroMondays
theme: #HandTool
My contribution to Macro Monday's challenge, "Cutter", on 9 March 2020. It's a pair of secateurs that I use for dead-heading roses.
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.~Balthus
The blade - cutter on the Army styled tin opener that I never use.
It does have one advantage if the ring pull breaks as you can open the tin from the bottom easily.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourite.
There are lots of leaf-cutter bees (of several species) active at my garden bee-hotels at the moment. I've been spending ridiculous amounts of time positioned there, attempting to get that perfect in-flight shot. Just to make it clear, I realise that this shot is far from perfect!
I think that this is a Patchwork Leafcutter Bee (Megachile centuncularis). I've not seen one carrying such a large piece of leaf before. I was actually focused on another hole, waiting for a larger leafcutter female to return, when this individual flew into view. I'm a bit "diagonal" to the surface of the bee-hotel here, hence parts of the bee being in focus, but the majority not. It's very "touch and go" this in-flight photography. I've been positioning myself with the camera focused on a particular hole where I have seen a female leave. They generally return within 30 seconds with another piece of leaf. You can hear them coming, but they often hesitate when they become aware of you and the camera next to their nest. As soon at their head appears in frame, I take the shot.
I haven't got a really top quality shot during this recent session. I shall persevere though!
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Cutter Stack
How do you make a photo of plastic cookie cutters look interesting? Stack em up and do some light painitng! Simples!
Measure twice, cut once. Cutting a piece of steel to fit a repair on an old railcar.
At the Niles Canyon Railway maintenance yard near Sunol, California.