Ants and friends
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Ants and friends
Eooxylides tharis distanti (Branded Imperial) butterfly, with a yellow crazy ant!
This beautiful butterfly was too big for the MPE65. I had to take 4 shots for merging/stitching.
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Myrmicaria sp.
A dead ant and an aphid. Ophiocordyceps kill, early stages.
Two
weaver ant queen
A Diacamma sp. ant, and a sow bug.
This beautiful butterfly was too big for the MPE65. I had to take 4 shots for merging/stitching.
http://orionmystery.blogspot.com/2010/1 ... o-one.html
Myrmicaria sp.
A dead ant and an aphid. Ophiocordyceps kill, early stages.
Two
weaver ant queen
A Diacamma sp. ant, and a sow bug.
Kurt
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I figure the ants in the rain forest are at least 6 inches long!lauriek wrote:That must be a tiny woodlouse in the last shot (or a mahoosive big ant!)
Nice set as usual Kurt!
(A confession - my image of the rain forest is based on 1950s jungle survival/expedition movies. In those movies, everything from the Creature from the Black Lagoon to giant, hyper-aggressive army ants were an imminent danger to visitors! <insert grins here>)
-Phil
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Great shots of course, just how big are these ants. We are moving into a new building that housed 3 floors of of leafcutter ants , some of the casts are big but even then they are very small in comparison to these monsters. I would not like a bite from any of them. Thanks for sharing and keep them coming
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Thanks for looking and commenting, tpe, Gustavo, abpho, Harold, Laurie, Phil, crisarg.
Phil - can't say I have really noticed any seasonal difference at all. Biggest ants in the neck of my wood would be the Camponotus gigas, only up to 28.1 mm for soldier and 20.9 for workers.
You can see one being attacked by phoridae flies here:
Laurie - the ant was of normal size...probably 5mm...the woodlouse was tiny though. In fact I only saw something moving but didn't know what it was at the time of pressing the shutter!
Phil - can't say I have really noticed any seasonal difference at all. Biggest ants in the neck of my wood would be the Camponotus gigas, only up to 28.1 mm for soldier and 20.9 for workers.
You can see one being attacked by phoridae flies here:
Laurie - the ant was of normal size...probably 5mm...the woodlouse was tiny though. In fact I only saw something moving but didn't know what it was at the time of pressing the shutter!
Kurt
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Thank you Harald.Harald wrote:Hi there,
Impressive, what else can I say. Love these images
Kurt
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