The genus name for American harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex, means "bearded ant", and it refers to a basket of hairs on the underside of the head that helps these desert ants carry dry sand.
Monahans Sandhills State Park, Texas.
der.hans
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Macro photo of a slender, shiny ant holding the bent wing of an orange, striped Drosophila tripunctata fruit fly, and dragging the insect across a rough orange substrate.
Macro photo of a small shiny brown ant holding a yellowish maggot in its jaws as it walks over an orange substrate, with some mold fruiting at lower right.
This is such a cool study. A parasitic ant queen tricks worker ants into murdering their own queen, so the parasite can take over the colony.
#Ants #Science https://www.sciencenews.org/article/parasitic-ant-matricide-queen
Macro photo of a slender, shiny ant holding the bent wing of an orange, striped Drosophila tripunctata fruit fly, and dragging the insect across a rough orange substrate.
Macro photo of a small shiny brown ant holding a yellowish maggot in its jaws as it walks over an orange substrate, with some mold fruiting at lower right.
Lisa Melton
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A Texas leafcutter ant, Atta texana, hauls spring Prunus buds along a tree branch on her way back to the nest.
Chip Butty
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I can’t remember who pointed out this book here, and pointed out it was on sale, but thank you. It is a stunning book. #Ants
A Texas leafcutter ant, Atta texana, hauls spring Prunus buds along a tree branch on her way back to the nest.
I can’t remember who pointed out this book here, and pointed out it was on sale, but thank you. It is a stunning book. #Ants
Jonathan Schofield
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A colony of aphids tended by a Camponotus noveboracensis carpenter ant. South Bristol, New York.
RE: https://mastodon.online/@alexwild/115488292292186152
For me, always a good example to change perspectives and become decent in our anthropocentrism: this is a #farmer with cattle. #Ants developed #farming long before humans existed.
A colony of aphids tended by a Camponotus noveboracensis carpenter ant. South Bristol, New York.
RE: https://mastodon.online/@alexwild/115488292292186152
For me, always a good example to change perspectives and become decent in our anthropocentrism: this is a #farmer with cattle. #Ants developed #farming long before humans existed.
A colony of aphids tended by a Camponotus noveboracensis carpenter ant. South Bristol, New York.
Gens du web et autres gens gentils : j'ai besoin d'un conseil pour une démarche administrative en ligne qui merdoie.
Le site d'immatriculation https://ants.gouv.fr ne fonctionne pas normalement, et ce sur aucun de mes Firefox (identification tourne en boucle).
Je me souviens d'un Internet Explorer version linux qui dépannait bien pour tout ce qui est xxx.gouv.fr mais je retrouve plus.
#aide #help #gouv #firefox #FranceConnect #ants #WrongPlanet
A textbook image I did a few years ago showing a trap-jaw ant (Odontomachus rixosus) with her mandibles held open and trigger hairs forward, and then in the closed position.
The snapping shut of the trap is one of the fastest measured animal movements.
#Ants #Entomology #Insects #Odontomachus
Andrew Wooldridge 🍂
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This oughta really wind up the wingnuts.
"Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring1,2. Here, we report a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species. In this life cycle, females must clone males of another species because they require their sperm to produce the worker caste. As a result, males from the same mother exhibit distinct genomes and morphologies, as they belong to species that diverged over 5 million years ago. The evolutionary history of this system appears as sexual parasitism3 that evolved into a natural case of cross-species cloning4,5, resulting in the maintenance of a male-only lineage cloned through distinct species’ ova. We term females exhibiting this reproductive mode as xenoparous, meaning they give birth to other species as part of their life cycle."
This oughta really wind up the wingnuts.
"Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring1,2. Here, we report a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species. In this life cycle, females must clone males of another species because they require their sperm to produce the worker caste. As a result, males from the same mother exhibit distinct genomes and morphologies, as they belong to species that diverged over 5 million years ago. The evolutionary history of this system appears as sexual parasitism3 that evolved into a natural case of cross-species cloning4,5, resulting in the maintenance of a male-only lineage cloned through distinct species’ ova. We term females exhibiting this reproductive mode as xenoparous, meaning they give birth to other species as part of their life cycle."
priryo@linernotes.club
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Since I may not be doing many in-person events in the coming months, I gotta push myself to share my online store more. So, here's one of my favorite new prints! Flowers and ants printed on fine art paper, from a scan of one of my hand drawn works.
https://www.artatomic.io/product/fine-art-print-of-floral-network-and-ants-drawing-small-/73
Since I may not be doing many in-person events in the coming months, I gotta push myself to share my online store more. So, here's one of my favorite new prints! Flowers and ants printed on fine art paper, from a scan of one of my hand drawn works.
https://www.artatomic.io/product/fine-art-print-of-floral-network-and-ants-drawing-small-/73