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This #log crosses my #walking path; every time I step over it I wonder about these #ants. Best I can tell is that it's some kind of superhighway for the little dudes.

I've looked for an obvious nest on either end of the log, but they both disappear into salal growths. The log is probably 40 feet across, altogether. Quite the commute for an #ant.

#Ant hive mind! These black ants with a slight banding on their abdomens are stealing stamens from the milkweed flowers! But why?
They're wearing the stamen as little booties!!!
Posting a longer version on my loops acc

#buds and #bugs in the garden.

Die Biene bekommt Besuch.

Das ist ein unerwartetes Foto. Ich war dabei die Biene mit dem Makroobjektiv zu fotografieren und dann kam diese Ameise hoch gekrabbelt.

The bee gets a visit.

This is an unexpected photo. I was about to photograph the bee with the macro lens and then this ant crawled up.

#Nature #Picnic #Insect #Insects #Ant #Ants #Fly #Flies

Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
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and I oop

@futurebird Saw a lady with this tattoo of an ant bouncing on a marshmallow on her leg, and she let me take a photo just for you!
#Ant #Tattoo

The #Norwaymaple #Acer #platanoides is a native #tree of (Central) #Europe that spread northward after the last #IceAge along with mixed oak forests and is still commonly found in such #treecommunities today. Like all #trees, it offers #habitats for numerous organisms, forming complex macro#ecosystems, e.g., the #leaves, where #aphids feed, while the #ant #Formica #fusca is collecting their excretions (honeydew) as food.
#ecology #evolution
© #StefanFWirth #Berlin May 2025

#Photos
© S.F. Wirth

The mimics and the mimicked. Note how the spider and the beetle not only are reddish brown with black at posterior end but they both have two white perpendicular dashes that separate these colors. These white dashes probably make them look like they have a waist like the carpenter ant.

I observed these today on a hike at a local state park. Species names are in the alt tags.

That's it. I got the bug.
Now I've an urge to take picture of everything ant related.

Hercules the Ant.

I put the tiny urchin shell on the smooth granite stone for some black and white photos. Later I saw this ant scrambling around it.

#stem #science #biology #paleontology #fossils #insects #ant #cool #Dominicanrepublic #Caribbean

First Caribbean 'dirt ant' found in 16-million-year-old amber which is really pretty metal when you think about it \m/

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-caribbean-dirt-ant-million-year.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2025/04/16/two-belgian-teens-arrested-in-kenya-for-smuggling-thousands-of-r/

Kenya: quatre personnes arrêtées pour trafic de fourmis

Quatre personnes ont été arrêtées pour avoir tenté d’exporter illégalement plusieurs milliers de fourmis vivantes pour les vendre à des collectionneurs en Europe ou Asie.
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20250416-kenya-quatre-personnes-arr%C3%AAt%C3%A9es-pour-trafic-de-fourmis

When fetching the twig photo, I noticed something red. I saw something scurry past at the time but on first look thought it had missed the frame.

Most of the creature is hidden in the groove. The obvious things are the huge antenna and the two segments which are grey, against the others in orange and red.

Ants are not my province at all. In the USA this could likely be a twig ant but we don't have those in the UK.

Or maybe we do...

This beautiful lady is Solenopsis invicta. Measuring barely over 2 mm long, she is a member of an incredibly successful species.

Unfortunately, she is far outside her native range, and doing incredible damage to her local ecosystem.

It isn't her fault that she's a fire ant.