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I put down some honey near a black ants nest, and they liked it enormously. I took quite a few pictures and managed to get a few worth keeping. Like this one.
As promised a couple of pics of the "Opal Spider" ant mimic using its front legs like an ant's feelers !
Anthony's parents were genetic researchers who decided to experiment on their children. His genes were spliced with his Aunt's, who was turned into a giant Ant by a gypsy curse.
A nice afternoon i had feeding the ants figs. They were extremely happy. It took them about six hours to get the piece into their hole.
An ant-mimic jumping spider (Myrmarachne sp.) in my backyard. This was the first time I've seen one of these, and luckily I had the camera and macro lens with me!
This arboreal ant, Crematogaster ransonneti, plays an important role in several of the ant-plant interactions
this is a very big found at RSPB Arne in Dorset. There were thousands of them on the floor, up trees, hence my jeans were tightly tucked into my socks and i never stood still....
Crested Ant Tanager (Habia cristata) - Female - ProAves Tangaras Reserve, El Carmen de Atrato, Colombia - Colombian endemic, often found in riparian forests/buffers. I have some better photos now on BirdPhotos.com.
Black CDC Ants are great searching terrestrials and also work well when blind cast where fish are likely to hold. This black ant fly also works well when presented to rising fish that refuse other offerings. A fish that begins feeding on ants will often key on them even when they aren't noticed drifting in the water. This high floating and visible pattern is among the best ant dry flies available.
Some ants actually herd aphids. Aphids excrete a sugary fluid after they feed off your plants. In return, the aphids are protected by the ants. I never knew that!
These are from June. There was this crowd of ants that would gather on our walkway, in a very specific spot- but a different specific spot each day. Got me. Anyway, This was the first day after I got my new point and shoot digital, and i was messing with the macro. Threw a piece of bread in to get a focal point to the chaos.
The Bullet Ant (Paraponera clavata) is named because the sting has been compared to that of being shot. The pain inflected by this ant’s sting is claimed to be more painful than any other insect – it even is ranked higher than that of a tarantula hawk wasp’s sting. The pain has been reported as continuing in waves for up to 24 hours [another name for this ant is the “24 (hour) ant”]. Colonies of several hundred individuals are usually found near the base of trees. Great care is taken to avoid this ant at all cost since a single sting can end your vacation. I love ants – in fact it is one of the reasons I enjoy the tropics as much as I do. In one study in Panama the average number of ants in a square meter of forest-litter was 680 and 35 to 240 per square meter in the canopy. Ants rule the tropics – they are the main predators and the main herbivores. I often kid my birder friends that I can tell how biological diverse the area we are staying in by the number of ant species I find in the bathroom. My friends did keep their distance while I got close enough to take a macro photo of this ant but I was careful – yes I love ants but some are best to be enjoyed at a distance. La Selva Biological Field Station, Costa Rica.
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.