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After several days of cool and wet weather, today the sun came out and warmed things up. I guess the ants thought it was time to throw a Party.
Small Black ants!
Hormiga (ant) fotografiada en Alto de Boquerón
Lugar (Taken in): Medellín, Colombia
© Wilmer Quiceno
Instagram: @wilmer.quiceno
ants scouts cooperating with each other to form a bridge as they struggle to lift this flower to their hide
La famosa Isola Formica, poco più di uno scoglio al largo delle Isole Egadi, Sicilia.
Improvvisa, sorge a pelo d'acqua nel blu del Mediterraneo.
Foto dal mio archivio, buona giornata
#island #egadi #ant #formica #mediterranean #sicily #sicilia #mare #sea #oblò
Ant
Camera: Nikon D7200
Lens: Lomo 3,7
Magnification: ≈ 3,7x (crop sensor)
EXIF: ISO 100, 3sec,
Processing: Zeren Stacker, PS, Topaz sharpen, Color efex detail extractor
Lighting: 2 led panels, DIY foam n paper diffuser
Rail : MJKZZ Ultra mini rail
Total images. : 75
Step Size: ≈ 30um
General:
A Stab of Truth to Open Eyes -
On a trail overrun with weeds, a spokesman for the microscopic climbed the beanstalk and came into view abruptly. He gesticulated with antennae to and fro, putting into words, how a giantess occupied with future worries failed to notice the mass murders she commit with feet. The one-eyed titan looked down and saw… oh, what a view. Scores of bodies were lying around, squashed and broken with defeat. The field looks like a battle scene. She sat on unsteady heels and look fixedly at the faultfinder. Except for a borrowed spike from a sea urchin and the hair whorl of Van Gogh throughout, the itty bitty was just another ant in the crowd.
“Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of ants everywhere. It’s not my fault that the teeny can’t be seen. They should shriek loud if they can down there, although I won’t be able to hear a thing up here. Only the foolish follows through a single file line and run not in all directions to get out of my way,” the cyclop mocked.
Her accuser remained calm, despite having verbal stones thrown at him. “How many times have you tripped on this trodden path?” the ant cross-examined with genuine interest.
The giantess replied with furrowed brows, “Just five minutes ago, I sprawled because an inconsiderate tortoise tent right in the middle of the road. In general, I stagger at least once a week. Why?”
“The solution is to keep your eyes held high, low on the ground bubbling with life,” the ant responded, an octave higher.
The lady goliath retorted, “I’m used to walking with my head in the clouds. What’s there to observe on the floor? The settling dusts flying up in a breeze?”
The gentle-ant went into detail, “You passed over the fabulous roadmaps made by earthworms in their earthly labor. Over there you missed the invitation of the Malayan shrews, they are sharing with anyone their party of fresh fallen donut peaches. And that meadow ant meandering leisurely with a trimming of curry leaf, he is flossing his teeth.”
Globs of awakening twirled within the iris of the tall titanic. It was the first time she realized that. Having said his piece, teeny sauntered in peace toward his homely jungle. The giantess had better appreciation for ants since and watched her step. To date she is still ironing flat the wrinkly dead leaves with elephantine tread, but instead of stomping on ants, she walks over them now. You think you can easily crush a dozen ants with one finger? Small in size they may look weak, but all it takes is one strong-minded ant to lift you off your feet.
It looks like a wasp, but it is in fact an ant. Only the male is winged.
To be identified, à identifier.Genus/genre Traumatomutilla
As the name depicts its hard to identify this beautiful creature when it is wandering around! It looks like weaver ant and a close view and the crawling style will make you to identify it as spider! These are very fast and hard to click!
I've been trying really hard to get a decent picture of ants, but I'm really struggling. This is the best of the bunch.
I wondered what this Woodant was doing all curled up, looked through view finder to see it was holding onto a fly
Ant farm
Hate a lot of things
But I love a few things
And you are one of them
Hard to believe
After all of these years
But you are one of them
Walk down the street
I'm thinking:
Everybody move along
I've got a sad-hearted needing
to belong
Nevertheless
It's all the mess you made
But I can let it go
Walk down the street
I'm thinking:
Look at all the ants in a farm
I've got a sad-hearted feeling
to harm
Hate a lot of things
But I love a few things
And you are one of them
Eels
These tiny ants have a Heart shaped head, a Shriveled horn-like mid-section, and a Spear shaped back end. What the heck are they?
Large ants (16mm long, Platythyrea conradti, Formicidae; ID credit: BrianLeeFisher) from the miombo forests of Katanga (DR Congo, January 2012, ethanol preserved).
Studio work. Specimens were staged, the soil is from the miombo. Had plenty of trouble to recreate that hard light from the open savannah.
Focus stack based on 90 images, assembled in Zerene Stacker (Dmap & Pmax). Canon 5D mkii, EF 100mm macro 1:2.8L IS USM, ISO-100, f/6.3, 1/25s, -0.3step, combined natural & ledlight.
Ant farming its aphid colony on a daisy. There's even a tiny spider in the centre of the flower, almost invisible even at this magnification.
"Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. (Proverbs 6:6-8)
EOS 5D Mark II © 2014 Klaus Ficker. Photos are copyrighted. All rights reserved. Pictures can not be used without explicit permission by the creator.
Painted ant nest frog (Lithodytes [Leptodactylus] lineatus) - Cordillera Escalera Conservation Area, Peru
A really fascinating frog on several different levels, the painted ant nest frog is a uncommon treat to see in the forest here in the San Martin department, I have encountered 4 individuals so far. This frog gets its common name from its association with leaf cutter ants (Atta sp.), these frogs are often found in and around leafcutter ant nests and males will call from within the nest. Multiple calling males have been recorded from the same nest, breeding happens underground so there is plenty we don't know about but tadpoles have been found in pools of water underground within leafcutter ant nests! To avoid being attacked by ants the frogs give off a chemical cue which either fools the ants or signals to them to not attack, and thus they are able to venture into ant nests where most intruders would be killed by attacking ants. If they weren't already interesting enough, they're also thought to be mimics of certain poison frog species (Ameerega, Phyllobates), when I saw my first individual of this species I was quite confused as at first glance I had thought it was an Ameerega but a closer look told me it was something else. Its unclear whether its Batesian mimicry, a non toxic species mimicking a toxic one, or Mullerian mimicry, two toxic species who look similar for shared protection. Some info suggests it might be the latter and that this frog likely has some distasteful toxins in its skin. This frog is probably more common than it seems but its secretive subterranean nature make it elusive.