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I've always found ants fascinating, this is one of my best shots of a live ant.
I find them really challenging to photograph!
Ant Facts
There are more than 12,000 species of ants all over the world.
An ant can lift 20 times its own body weight. If a second grader was as strong as an ant, she would be able to pick up a car!
Some queen ants can live for many years and have millions of babies!
Ants don’t have ears. Ants "hear" by feeling vibrations in the ground through their feet.
When ants fight, it is usually to the death!
When foraging, ants leave a pheromone trail so that they know where they’ve been.
Queen ants have wings, which they shed when they start a new nest.
Ants don’t have lungs. Oxygen enters through tiny holes all over the body and carbon dioxide leaves through the same holes.
When the queen of the colony dies, the colony can only survive a few months.
Queens are rarely replaced and the workers are not able to reproduce.
Although ants are frustrating when they get into your home or when you’re having a picnic, ants do help the environment. They are social insects, which means they live in large colonies or groups. Depending on the species, ant colonies can consist of millions of ants.
There are three kinds of ants in a colony: The queen, the female workers, and males. The queen and the males have wings, while the workers don’t have wings. The queen is the only ant that can lay eggs. The male ant’s job is to mate with future queen ants and they do not live very long afterwards.
Once the queen grows to adulthood, she spends the rest of her life laying eggs! Depending on the species, a colony may have one queen or many queens.
Ant colonies also have soldier ants that protect the queen, defend the colony, gather or kill food, and attack enemy colonies in search for food and nesting space.
If they defeat another ant colony, they take away eggs of the defeated ant colony. When the eggs hatch, the new ants become the "slave" ants for the colony.
Some jobs of the colony include taking care of the eggs and babies, gathering food for the colony and building the anthills or mounds.
Challenge 49: People / Black and White
Workers removing Christmas decorations at Coeur d'Alene Resort in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
Part of my ‘Colours of Cabramatta’ project.
Charity workers in Cabramatta
Candid Street Photography
Cabramatta, NSW
August, 2018
(Explore: 198 on Friday, July 31, 2009)
Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, and are known for their roles of producing honey and beeswax and pollination. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila. There are nearly 20,000 known species of bees in nine recognized families, though many are undescribed and the actual number is probably higher. They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants.
Workers at the shipbreaking yard need protective gear to protect themselves from all the hazardous elements of the area.
Chittagong,Bangladesh
Road works, involving blasting, calls a holt and provides a chance to photograph the road workers continuing about their business filling pot holes.
Looking a bit moody here, probably monday morning on a winter's day!
The image shows a bald, bearded man, likely a workman, standing in an outdoor industrial or workshop setting. He is wearing a yellow and grey high-visibility zipped hoodie with reflective stripes and dark grey work trousers with pockets on the sides. His hands are in the pockets of his hoodie, and he has a serious expression as he looks directly at the camera.
Madrid, Spain
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