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Today I wanted to spend some time on a little wooden lake called "Weiherboeden". It`s still winter there, everywhere`s snow, but spring`s signs are also there. I thought there would be more "life" there, but the it will need some more time.
One of the first taxa of ecdysozoa, which is getting out of hibernation or winter sleep, is one of the most known insect. The ant. So I tried to catch it.
The photo I`ve taken is hand held. Sometimes I hate myself. At home, before going to shoot, I always say I wont need a tripod, it`s also possible to take pictures hand held. But when you tried the first shots, the result is telling you something other.
Remind to myself --- Always take the tripod with you!
"When conditions are warm and humid, winged males and female Carpenter Ants participate in a nuptial flight. They emerge from their satellite nests and females mate with a number of males while in flight. The males die after mating. These newly fertilized queens discard their wings and search for new areas to establish primary nests. The queens build new nests and deposit around 20 eggs, nurturing them as they grow until worker ants emerge. The worker ants eventually assist her in caring for the brood as she lays more eggs. After a few years, reproductive winged ants are born, allowing for the making of new colonies. Again, satellite nests will be established and the process will repeat itself. Both the worker ants and queen are wingless, but the swarmers possess wings."
N' Ant (Mod_Antt) sitting outdoor under the shade.
Exposure Info: 85mm ; f/2.0 ; ISO-100 ; 1/500 sec
Lighting Info: 4-foot silver reflector on camera left; Canon 580 ex ii as fill light above camera..
I chased this fella from the high perches of a leaf, to the ground. Running, squatting, chasing and proning to the ground. Just then, he stopped and pondered about his life, and that was when i got shot.
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Ants are particularly good animals to mimic, firstly because they are very numerous and secondly because many animals find them distasteful or dangerous to eat. By looking like an ant, the spider mimic is less likely to be noticed or eaten.
A few spiders not only look like ants but smell like them as well. These spiders are such good mimics that they trick not only animals that eat ants but they trick the ants as well. By smelling like the ants, the spider is able to enter the ant nest unchallenged and steal their young.
Accidentally disturbed a small colony of these tiny ants (2-3mm) in a rotting twig, beautiful little ants, but unsure of ID, added a record to iSpot hoping for an ID www.ispotnature.org/node/739829
Ant 5 x macro. You can just make out 2 of the 3 extra simple eyes the ant has on the top of its head.
The Tupolev ANT-25 was a Soviet long-range experimental aircraft which was also tried as a bomber. First constructed in 1933, it was used by the Soviet Union for a number of record-breaking flights.
On July 12-14, 1937 this plane piloted by Gromov, Yumashev and Danilin flew non-stop from Moscow to San Jacinto (USA), covering 11500km in 62 hours and 17 minutes. Only 2 aircraft were built. Most of the Soviet flights with Ant-25 were made flying over the North Pole.
The MOC features a cockpit for three pilots; retractable landing gear and the engine can be powered if needed. It was completed in 2012 but for some reasons I always postponed it’s presentation. Some of my MOCs wait years until they are shown to the world.
Hope you like it
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General characteristics
Crew: 3
Length: 13.4 m (44 ft 0 in)
Wingspan: 34 m (111 ft 7 in)
Height: 5.5 m (18 ft 1 in)
Wing area: 87.1 m2 (938 sq ft)
Empty weight: 3,700 kg (8,157 lb)
Gross weight: 8,000 kg (17,637 lb)
Fuel capacity: dubler (1936) – 5,880 kg (12,963 lb) + 350 kg (772 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × Mikulin M-34 V-12 liquid-cooled piston engine, 560 kW (750 hp)
Performance
Maximum speed: 246 km/h (153 mph; 133 kn)
Range: 7,200 km (4,474 mi; 3,888 nmi)
Endurance: 48 hours
Service ceiling: 2,100 m (6,890 ft) fully loaded
7,850 m (25,755 ft) lighly loaded
I'm not real sure what's going on with this. At first I thought the ants were acting like worker ants tending the newly hatched. But then I wondered if they just couldn't resist easy pickings and at a long protein rich breakfast. Either way, here they are. The ants are about an eighth inch long.
Ant mimicry is mimicry of ants by other organisms. Ants are abundant all over the world, and predators that rely on vision to identify their prey such as birds and wasps normally avoid them, either because they are unpalatable, or aggressive. Thus some other arthropods mimic ants to escape predation (protective mimicry). Conversely, some species (e.g. Zodariidae spiders) use their anatomical and behavioral ant mimicry to hunt ants (aggressive mimicry).
Taken with Sony a7, minolta 100mm 2.8 macro and raynox 250