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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 !!
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.
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I've got your boat Ant !
Or at least a similar one (yours didn't have any writing on it). Watched your video and was reminded of our visit to Aldeburgh a few years ago. I never posted this as the highlights were blown out (although we had lovely pink clouds).
Triplaris americana is a species of flowering plant in the knotweed family known by many common names, including ant tree[1] or pau-formiga ("ant tree"),[2] guacamayo, guayabo zancón, hormiguero, palo de Santa María, tachí, vara santa,[3] pau-de-novato, formigueiro, taxizeiro,[2] and devil tree.[4] It is native to Central and South America, occurring from Panama to Brazil.[1] It is also cultivated as an ornamental for its showy pink flowers.[5]
The leafcutter ants feed themselves with the roots of the mushrooms that they cultivate in their nests. They collect leaves and other fresh vegetation to create a nutritional substrate to allow the mushrooms to grow in their nests.
When I heard that some very large ants had been spotted at a local park, I thought it might be a good subject for my new macro lens. So I packed up my camera and the lens and headed out. But when I got to the park and found the ants, you might say that I got more than I had bargained for! 😄
Actually, this is a shot of an ant taken with the new macro lens. But since today's Smile On Saturday calls for an "Open Day Theme," meaning anything goes, I decided to have some fun with the shot.
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By David Rogers
American B. 1960
Weight: 725 lbs.
Materials- Body: Bent Willow on Armature
Eyes: Carved Red Cedar
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.
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.
Ants form a symbiotic relationship with aphids. Aphids are small herbivorous insects that spend their entire life cycles on specific host plants. They excrete a sugar-rich substance called honeydew that is a prized resource for various ant species. For this honeydew the ants will protect the aphids from other predators.