1.5 ants

[paul]

Spring is definitely on its way, as evidenced by more numerous sorties by the white-footed ants (technomyrmex albipes) whose abode I share . In earlier posts I have described their obsession with dead bodies and body parts, here is another attempt to capture the behaviour (on the wooden floor of my living room).




Dynax 7D @ ISO 800
100-300mm (@100) + 50mm reversed
F32
polarising filter
flash
cropped (about 1/3 by area)

[MacroLuv]

Is it something wrong with your picture? I got worm alert as I tried to open your post and my internet worm protection blocked whole site. Sorry maybe I have paranoic protection.

and can not see the image
"The image “http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/u ... 4web_1.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors."

[Ken Ramos]

Nikola commented:

Is it something wrong with your picture? I got worm alert as I tried to open your post and my internet worm protection blocked whole site.

I am using NAV Internet Security 2006 and I recieved no such warning upon entering the site or opening the post. Must be on your end Nikola, hope you get it figured out.

Gad! What a shot Paul. Morbid little creatures aren't they? An excellent behavioral image though, got to hand it to you, thanks.

[MacroLuv]

I've cleaned my internet cache and still can't view this picture.

[Ken Ramos]

It is possible that your anti virus protection has the sites URL's blocked. You may have to go into the virus protection settings and place the sites URL in the Allowed section of the virus protection program or adjust your level of security accordingly. It maybe that you have that set too high.

[Erland R.N.]

The only alert I get is ant alert Boy I layed down to photograph a mushrom this sunday, and suddenly realised I had ants all over me Boy did I get up and jump around.

This picture is really interesting and strange at the same time. Great capture you managed. I once observed an ants carying a dead ant around over the nest. Not sure what the purpose is.

cheers
Erland

[Ken Ramos]

Maybe they have the need to emulate Vlad the Impaler (Dracula), turned back a whole horde of turks with dead bodies impaled on the battlefield. Grusome but novel idea. It is curious what the ants do with the dead bodies of their fellow ants, maybe they are used in nest construction of some type.

[PeglegOS]

Norton has many false alarms due to the fact that sites are submitted by end users in error. It did that to me once on my home page and many times on other pages known to be safe.

[Ken Ramos]

That is odd. It has never happened to me that I can recall and I hope it doesn't. I have just started using NAV Internet Security and I prefer it over the standard NAV. It detects and removes all types of worms, trogans, etc. really well if you by chance come up on them. I have never encountered anything serious though, most of them are "downloaders," which are really common these days on about any website and are easily removed by the NAVIS program on the spot.

[Gordon C. Snelling]

Neat shot.

[MacroLuv]

I got Security Alert again, and it happened only whe trying to open this post.

Intrusion: ICC Profile TagData Owerflow.
Intruder: www.photomacrography2.net(66.226.64.31)(http(80)).
Risk Level: High.
Protocol: TCP.
Attacked IP: 192.168.1.2 (My PC)
Attacked Port: 4572

.. and shortly after that ...
......

Attacked Port: 4583

4596 ... etc

[Ken Ramos]

Go into your anti virus program, NAV if that is what you are using and add www.photomacrography2.net to your "Allow" list. That should solve the problem...I think.

[MacroLuv]

Everything is o.k. when I leave this post.
Could be something embedded in photoghraph???