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Red ant on pentas seed-head. Not very big - maybe 8mm - and a species I don't normally see in my garden.
Big red & black ants! I had never seen ones like these before. They built themselves quite a nice mound along the side of the trail.
They are some type of Carpenter Ant (camponotus spp)
The ants are Crematagaster laeviceps chasei harvesting a substance from mealy bug nymphs,a sugary waste called honeydew,some were being herded on this leaf and others in borer holes in the stem.The mealybug is Psudococcus spp.
Plenty of these now out and about mainly under stones and on old rotten logs ... they hardly ever seem to stay still at the mo!
Another shot from the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. The weather today was absolutely perfect and the bright blue sky was wonderful.
Species of ant and aphid unknown. Aphids have dual "tailpipes," called cornicles, and pear-shaped bodies. Ants and aphids have a mutualistic relationship known as ant mutualism. The ants feed on honeydew left behind by the aphids, and in return, they protect the aphids from predators. Aphid and ant species unknown but ants could be Common Wood Ant (Formica rufa) or Common Ant (Tapinoma sessile).
Black ants servicing aphids; something I stumbled upon while chasing the butterfly in the previous photo...
Flying ant on road surface marking.
Yesterday we had the annual flying ant invasion north of Stockholm, Sweden.
Flying ants are attracted to light surfaces and gather in thousands on white road markings, light blue cardboard, houses, just about anything with the correct color.
D60, Nikkor 55-200 4-5.6 G DX, post processing with Capture NX2 to increase contrast and add vignetting.
This carpenter ant was sitting on top of the thermostat, I have no idea what he's up to, but he was there for at least 12 hours.
I took about 50 pictures of him, trying to get one that was in focus and showed his eye... for some reason the camera only wanted to focus on the dust!
saw these ants climbing a wall with their meal. ants are so fascinating to watch and learn from. organization is built into them
Disgraceful scenes on the heath at Arne back in March when a colony of wood ants went on the rampage. Terrified witnesses tell of looting and physical violence which left bugs from neighbouring communities dead and dying. Some analysts see this as the inevitable result of acquisitive ant culture, but personally, I blame the parent.