World of Ants
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of the world.
Kalahari Crinum Lily,
Savuti Channel, Botswana
The world is like a book and those, who do not travel, only read the first page.
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Hello my amazing Flickr friends !
Today is an orange day at Color my World Daily and we have an awesome theme at Crazy Tuesday : Ant Point of View. Of course, Mr. Teddy Bear is with us to celebrate Happy Teddy Bear Tuesdays.
As you can see, eggs are huge while seen by an ant. If you are an ant, you have to be very careful since you are exactly like Mr. Teddy bear : a miniature in a giant world. On the other hand, you can be friends with a fly ! Apparently flies make awesome friends: always there even when you dont need them, buzzing over everything and nothing and apparently flies love food !! Any type of food. So they aren't picky eaters at all ! Yes, my friends, a fly on my egg was an inspiration for this ant view picture ….
See you later my friends ! Mucho, mucho amor for you all !!
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A rainforest is an area of tall, mostly evergreen trees and a high amount of rainfall. Rainforests are Earth’s oldest living ecosystems, with some surviving in their present form for at least 70 million years. They are incredibly diverse and complex, home to more than half of the world’s plant and animal species—even though they cover just 6% of Earth’s surface. This makes rainforests astoundingly dense with flora and fauna. Rainforests’ rich biodiversity is incredibly important to our well-being and the well-being of our planet.
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Weaver ants moving a dead millipede.
Wikipedia: Weaver ants or green ants (genus Oecophylla) are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae (order Hymenoptera). Weaver ants live in trees (they are obligately arboreal) and are known for their unique nest building behavior where workers construct nests by weaving together leaves using larval silk. Colonies can be extremely large consisting of more than a hundred nests spanning numerous trees and containing more than half a million workers. Like many other ant species, weaver ants prey on small insects and supplement their diet with carbohydrate-rich honeydew excreted by small insects (Hemiptera). Weaver ant workers exhibit a clear bimodal size distribution, with almost no overlap between the size of the minor and major workers. The major workers are approximately 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) in length and the minors approximately half the length of the majors. Major workers forage, defend, maintain, and expand the colony whereas minor workers tend to stay within the nests where they care for the brood and 'milk' scale insects in or close to the nests.
Weaver ants vary in color from reddish to yellowish brown dependent on the species. Oecophylla smaragdina found in Australia often have bright green gasters. Weaver ants are highly territorial and workers aggressively defend their territories against intruders. Because they prey on insects harmful to their host trees, weaver ants are sometime used by indigenous farmers, particularly in southeast Asia, as natural biocontrol agents against agricultural pests. Although weaver ants lack a functional sting they can inflict painful bites and often spray formic acid directly at the bite wound resulting in intense discomfort.
The tiny Ant greeting the enormous Moth.
Pity when I did not hold on to the burst shoots a little longer and never know what else I could have snapped.
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Ants touch each other with their antennae when they meet. Each ant colony has a unique smell, so members recognize each other and sniff out intruders.
Ant Hill is a 2024 m summit located in Zion National Park, in Washington County of southwest Utah, United States. It is composed of white Navajo Sandstone, and rises 430 meters above the Zion – Mount Carmel Highway. Ant Hill is situated 2.66 km east-northeast of The East Temple and 3.9 km west-northwest of Checkerboard Mesa.
After sunrise.
United Sates, Zion National Park, Mount Carmel Highway
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Taken Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Addo Elephant National Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park situated close to Port Elizabeth in South Africa and is one of the country's 20 national parks. It currently ranks third in size after Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. I spent four consecutive days within the park which provided an amazing variety of wildlife.
By David Rogers
American B. 1960
Weight: 725 lbs.
Materials- Body: Bent Willow on Armature
Eyes: Carved Red Cedar
Ant. Photographed in Maryland.
A focus stack of 5 images, shot with the camera hand held. Canon 80D, Canon MPE lens, Canon twin flash, Aperture f/11, shutter speed 1/250, ISO 400.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II Laowa 25mm f28-2,5x5x Macro Lens © 2022 Klaus Ficker. Photos are copyrighted. All rights reserved. Pictures can not be used without explicit permission by the creator.
After releasing the Vine weevil it was immediately attacked by this Ant,
I removed the ant quickly but not before i took a few snaps
Glad you can make out his one tooth
Some more experimenting with focus stacking of a black ant under my Nikon Labophot-2 microscope. Approximately 64 images were focus stacked together in Helicon Focus to create this image. The ant was photographed under side light with a 4x objective. I was impressed by how much fine detail was captured, especially in the eye, leg and antenna.
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The genus contains a number of inquiline species (commensal symbionts), other Myrmica species that manage to invade the nest of their host. Subsequently, they use hormones to manipulate the host colony in such a way that eggs of the host queen develop into workers, and parasite brood into sexuals. Hence, the parasite is not able to sustain a colony of its own, but uses host resources instead.
Similarly, larvae of the butterfly genus Maculinea (a junior synonym of Phengaris, family Lycaenidae) and of the southern armyworm, live inside Myrmica nests where they are either directly fed by ants or prey upon ant brood. This parasitism is employed primarily by specific species such as Phengaris arion forming predatory relationships.