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I dropped something behind my fridge and when I moved the fridge to get at it here's what I found, hundreds of red ants!
aaaargh!
One of the first ants of the spring I saw in Uppsala. March 2008. A few days later it started to snow, poor ants.
This beautiful ant is enormous. Or is it a bug? What ever it is, I don't want it to bite me.
Thanks Terraincognita96, this is a blue ant.
Prenolepis imparis, aka,winter ant,on Sweetleaf,12/29/2010,Wormsloe State Historic Site, Savannah, Chatham Co, Ga.
This 1/8" small surface- foraging ant can be located in temperatures close to freezing ( cooler months) I located it while furthering my research into the mutualistic relationship between the King's Hairstreak butterfly and the ant attending species on larvae, Mid April, Chatham County, Ga. I am identifying ants along the way found on the King's H. host-plant, Sweetleaf, Symplocos tinctoria. I used honey applied to plant surface to cause ant to remain still as I photographed ( not an easy subject)
For the life of me I can't figure out the name of these ants. I just called them honey butt ants.
Peten, Guatemala
Macro set up:
Canon 7D on a tripod with cable release
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
65mm Manual Extension Ring
natural light
1/80s, f/11, ISO 3200,
Myrmecia pilosula. These ants are only about 1cm long but the ferocious look is appropriate. A primitive ant, they both bite and sting, which is said to be attention getting, potentially dangerous and repeated stings over time can lead to an anaphylactic reaction.
I've only seen these twice and photographing them makes me nervous. I'm very careful not to form any sort steadying bridge with my hand and to keep my fingers well back on the camera. I'm sort of hoping their characteristic hopping motion when agitated isn't really a jump but I have taken note that one of their common names is Jumping Jack. I took comfort from the fact that this one had its mandibles fully occupied. Partaking of nothing but nectar and plant juices as an adult, they feed the animals they kill to their larvae.
It was the sound of a thousand wings beating. The ground outside was moving and if they could have done it, the birds would have rubbed their bellies in anticipation of a feast.
We always knew our plant pots were home to hundreds of ants, they scurried around every time we watered. Some ants even made a home in our conservatory, too-ing and fro-ing, going about their anty business.
Then came the day for the males to sprout wings and fly the nest, it was an amazing sight, ants everywhere, the cats were totally freaked out, but it was only one day after all. It doesn't end well for the males, who are picked off by the birds or, according to the Guardian, their genitals explode after mating. But by that time, they've done their reproductive thing and promised to return to the plant pots the next year.
They'll be very welcome.
Ants busy at work, taken in the surrounding parklands around Shorncliff Pier, near Sandgate, QLD after a sunrise shoot.
Myrmecophytes (literally "ant-plant") are plants that live in a mutualistic association with a colony of ants.
Domatia are internal plant structures that appear to be specifically adapted for habitation by ants.These cavities are found primarily in the stems, leaves, and spines of plants.
Domatia (seen here) adapted to ants may be called myrmecodomatia.The plants are nourished by nutriets in the ants 'excreta', i.e. shit
Potted Plants Gallery ✿ Conservatory of Flowers ✿ Golden Gate Park ✿ San Francisco
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From outside the Kheora mine, there is this small factory ( a run down one ) and in the exact middle I found these big ants.
An Ant Feast i happen to stumble upon while walking one day. Would have been greater with the macro lens for sure, but i had to work with what i had on me.
...this Black Garden Ant (Lasius niger) appeared and attacked the loiterer with her jaws and formic acid sprayed from her rump. I apologise for the quality of the photo: it all happened quite suddenly and both were moving pretty fast.
Ants can be such a PITA. I wondered why this harvestman was running around at high speed until I saw it had a red ant attached to it's rear end
Thought he could move a rubber tree plant
Anyone knows an ant...can't
Move a rubber tree plant
but
He's got high hopes,
He's got high hopes.....
2011-12-31 New Year's Eve at House of Blues Anaheim. Photos by Jenni Anspach - jennianspach.com
Iration - irationmusic.com
Green Tree Ants, also known as weaver ants build balloon shaped nests among the foliage of trees and shrubs with larval silk.
This little army of green are very territorial and workers aggressively defend their territories against intruders, inflicting painful bites and sometimes spraying formic acid at the bite wound.