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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.
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.
Ik was getuige van de eerste vlucht van deze vliegende mier. Mieren beginnen te vliegen als hun paarseizoen aanbreekt. Dan wordt een deel van de mieren uit de kolonie geboren met tijdelijke vleugels. Die vleugels hebben ze nodig om zich voort te planten, want paren doen mieren graag in de lucht. Vliegende mieren zijn ook de enige uit de kolonie die vruchtbaar zijn.
Trying to get a capture of this very small ants that NEVER stop moving proved to be quite challenging with the macro lens ;)
50 plus shots later ... glad these are not film days ...
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).
The peony flower is the perfect place for shooting ants.You can always find them there and they are not as fast as usual.
Be well and safe.
Thank you for taking the time to look.
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
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.