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Ants with a very shallow depth of field. Glad I got their eyes in one of a gazillion attempts - on some of them, there weren't even any ants at all.
On the other hand, the contrast is not perfect at all, I should try getting one with a green backdrop or something, to make the ant(s) stand out and not disappear like in this picture.
We're having a shortage of bees this year, so maybe the ants have taken over to pollinate my raspberries.
Ants are social insects of the family Formicidae and along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.
Ants evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the mid-Cretaceous period between 110 and 130 million years ago and diversified after the rise of flowering plants.
More than 12,500 out of an estimated total of 22,000 species have been classified.
They are easily identified by their elbowed antennae and a distinctive node-like structure that forms a slender waist. - Wikipedi
Photography by Ali Chatai
Trophallaxis is the transfer of food or other fluids among members of a community through mouth-to-mouth (stomodeal) or anus-to-mouth (proctodeal) feeding. It is most highly developed in social insects such as ants, termites, wasps and bees;Wikipedia
There is a partially exposed tunnel of an ant colony in the backyard. They move very fast up and down this trench while removing pebbles their own size, twigs, and grass. Others bring in food. I am curious to see if they will leave this passage exposed or if they will re-engineer the area further.
It is very cool, because I get to watch them in action. Sometimes they have traffic jams that are sorted out in micro-seconds. The biggest challenge when photographing ants is how fast they move. They are blurry even at a 1/800 second shutter speeds. I wish I had a real macro lens.
Each of these sandy piles, on, and either side of the path, are fire ants nests. Not a place to strip naked and cover yourself in honey!!
An Ant (Formica incerta) forages on the surface of a leaf.
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