World of Ants
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In this beerhall only Ants are allowed to avoid riots:-) And we humans aren't allowed to gather in a beertent anymore,
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 !!
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and well!!
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.
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.
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.
Elephant on the banks of the Chobe, Botswana
High key edition
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Zorzal-hormiguero Meridional, Ant-eating Chat, Myrmecocichla formicivora.
Etosha National Park
Namibia
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
Ant bag beetle (Clytra laeviscula) on a stem of some flower.
Moszenica wierzbówka (Clytra laeviscula) na pędzie jakiegoś kwiatka.
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.