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Summer afternoon on the Kettle Lakes trails ~ CO Springs
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I like ants but it is not easy to photograph these small insects, because they are always on the move.
Here I've used the "Raynox DCR-150 Macro Conversion Lens"!
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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.
Carpenter Ant with a Milkbone dog treat crumb. Nugget dropped the crumb, the ant grabbed it and ran up the oak tree with it! I'm not really sure it's a carpenter ant though, but I think it is.
Zorzal-hormiguero Meridional, Ant-eating Chat, Myrmecocichla formicivora.
Etosha National Park
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Clytra laeviuscula, gladde zakkever, Ameisensackkäfer
The females wrap each egg with their hind legs in a ball of about 2 mm of excrements and leaves it in the vicinity of an anthill. The eggs are taken to the nest by ants, where the larvae makes a kind of tube that "grows" with them and serves to protect them from ants. They feed on the waste left by the ants, on their eggs and on their larvae.
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.
This is the "Dune Climb" at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. It's harder than it looks. After reaching the summit in this picture, another dune sits atop this one, then another atop that one (1024 feet at the top of the third climb, 312 meters)..
The genus contains a number of inquiline species (commensal symbionts), other Myrmica species that manage to invade the nest of their host. Subsequently, they use hormones to manipulate the host colony in such a way that eggs of the host queen develop into workers, and parasite brood into sexuals. Hence, the parasite is not able to sustain a colony of its own, but uses host resources instead.
Similarly, larvae of the butterfly genus Maculinea (a junior synonym of Phengaris, family Lycaenidae) and of the southern armyworm, live inside Myrmica nests where they are either directly fed by ants or prey upon ant brood. This parasitism is employed primarily by specific species such as Phengaris arion forming predatory relationships.
Spotted these two Woodants chatting away together, it looked like they were kissing each other, bless