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Leafcutter ants keep their young nestled on the fungus garden, but they are very precise about where they position the brood, and will rearrange the brood depending on the condition of the fungus. Here, an Acromyrmex versicolor worker moves a pupa while a second worker sits nearby. Two larvae have been positioned in between the workers. Worker ants check the larvae frequently and give them balls of fungus as food.
Best my camera can do. A big ant drone mating flight landed unfortunately near a colony of little black ants.
When I was a kid there were only little black ants. Now there all kinds. I see little red, big red, big black, these black and red big ones, etc. I guess this is how it play out.
Adam Ant & The Good The Mad & The Lovely Posse in concert during the Blueblack Hussar Tour at Bristol O2 Academy on the 16th November 2012
This ant was poking the aphids with his antennae. I'm guessing he was encouraging them to produce honeydew for him to eat. The plant is a foxglove penstemon (Penstemon digitalis). I'm going to leave the aphids, because they're not hurting the plant yet and they provide other insects with food.
The common red ant, Orange-red ant, Weaver ant or Green ant, Oecophylla smaragdina มดแดง หรือมดแดงส้มที่พบทำรังตามต้นมะม่วง และต้นไม้ใหญ่ทั่วไป
Ants are amazing insects with an uncanny ability to build and rebuild. These fragile sand mounds surrounding the opening to their nest are destroyed in a heavy rainfall but are usually rebuilt within 1-2 days.
Giant red ants by Rich Bergen of Salina, Kansas in the Ant Hill section of the Downing Children's Garden at Botanica, The Wichita Gardens in Wichita, Kansas.
A ant getting in a mess..after this shot i helped with free him self with some cotton that had around him..
The ants have invaded. Close up near an anthill encountered somewhere in the East of The Netherlands.
a little experiment for you.
Find a big wood ants nest and bash it with a bluebell.
Your bluebell will gradually become a pinkbell (see the one on the left)
because the ants (if they're big ants like wood ants) will squirt formic acid at it, and since the anthocyanin pigment in the flower is a lot like litmus it will respond in a similar way and change from blue to red in the presence of the acid.
Fun fun fun.
I can't believe this beetle is eating my flowers like some 'All-You-Can Eat Buffet'!
But, there he is . . . munch, munch, munch.
Hey Look! Some ants have joined him, goody.
Oh great, where there's ants there are aphids.
Ants attending to a Gumtree Hopper, a species of Eurymelidae. Dargo Victoria Australia, September 2012.