Ambitious Ant Attack - _TNY_5957
The beautiful butterfly here is a Sara longwing (Heliconius sara), but that's not the cool thing about the shot. Zoom in on the front legs and you'll find one of the more optimistic ants I've ever seen.
It's not exactly a great shot for identifying the ant, but surprisingly good for handheld indoors in natural light. A good friend who knows his way around ants (Hi Jitte!) came up with a maybe in form of it being a pavement ant (Tetramorium sp.) so we'll go with that (as a maybe).
I highly suspect the ant came home without this prize though.
Ambitious Ant Attack - _TNY_5957
The beautiful butterfly here is a Sara longwing (Heliconius sara), but that's not the cool thing about the shot. Zoom in on the front legs and you'll find one of the more optimistic ants I've ever seen.
It's not exactly a great shot for identifying the ant, but surprisingly good for handheld indoors in natural light. A good friend who knows his way around ants (Hi Jitte!) came up with a maybe in form of it being a pavement ant (Tetramorium sp.) so we'll go with that (as a maybe).
I highly suspect the ant came home without this prize though.