Well...er...um...uh, some ants

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:46 pm

The wind is howling around the eaves of the house, trees are down all over, and the power went out at work so we got the rest of the day off. Luckly I have power at home...for now

Here's more of my ant shots, maybe not the greatest but...

EOS 20D
Manual mode/hand held
1/250 sec. @ f/6.3 ISO 400
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro
Daylight, no flash

Never have I seen black aphids before, maybe the sudden change in our temperatures got to them, maybe they are frost bitten

. That "Nor-Easter" has really brought them, the temperatures, down here of late but it is beginning to warm up again. $\:D/$

EOS 30D
Manual mode/hand held
1/125 sec. @ f/5 ISO 400
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 macro
Overcast afternoon, no flash

Not really sure what those last two are "gooning" over but what ever it is it seemed as though they liked it.

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:37 pm

Very nice photos Ken. Maybe the second insect is some kind of scale insect. They like to ooz out sticky stuff. I agree, the wind was really blowing last night here also.

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:52 pm

We got a little snow here in the mountains but not really enough to say grace over. The straight line winds have really been the news maker around here, besides all that shooting at VA Tech. Wasn't that a shocker?!

I never thought of it but maybe that is some sort of scale insect in the last image, that the ants are gooning over. Lots of insects ooze honeydew.

Thanks Doug

acerola · Post by **acerola** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:06 am

My first thought is also scale insect. They are really nice ants on your second picture.

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:36 am

Thanks Péter

This time of year there are so many things waking up or crawling out of something or another, that you are not really sure what you have sometimes.