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Alex Wild
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@alexwild@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Discerning a sense of size from macro photographs is hard. Camponotus intrepidus, for example, is one of Australia’s largest sugar ants at slightly under an inch long.

But did you see the little Pheidole ant at her heels?

#Ants #Insects #camponotus

Macro photo of a leggy, slightly fuzzy black ant with blackberry red infestations on her thorax, standing alert on dirty white sand. A barely visible dark red ant nips at her hind leg.
Macro photo of a leggy, slightly fuzzy black ant with blackberry red infestations on her thorax, standing alert on dirty white sand. A barely visible dark red ant nips at her hind leg.
Macro photo of a leggy, slightly fuzzy black ant with blackberry red infestations on her thorax, standing alert on dirty white sand. A barely visible dark red ant nips at her hind leg.
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Alex Wild
Alex Wild
@alexwild@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Discerning a sense of size from macro photographs is hard. Camponotus intrepidus, for example, is one of Australia’s largest sugar ants at slightly under an inch long.

But did you see the little Pheidole ant at her heels?

#Ants #Insects #camponotus

Macro photo of a leggy, slightly fuzzy black ant with blackberry red infestations on her thorax, standing alert on dirty white sand. A barely visible dark red ant nips at her hind leg.
Macro photo of a leggy, slightly fuzzy black ant with blackberry red infestations on her thorax, standing alert on dirty white sand. A barely visible dark red ant nips at her hind leg.
Macro photo of a leggy, slightly fuzzy black ant with blackberry red infestations on her thorax, standing alert on dirty white sand. A barely visible dark red ant nips at her hind leg.
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@alexwild@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

A colony of aphids tended by a Camponotus noveboracensis carpenter ant. South Bristol, New York.

#Camponotus #aphids #ants #Insects #ecology

Macro photo of the face of a black ant with a deep red thorax standing over a dense herd of greenish-yellow aphids.
Macro photo of the face of a black ant with a deep red thorax standing over a dense herd of greenish-yellow aphids.
Macro photo of the face of a black ant with a deep red thorax standing over a dense herd of greenish-yellow aphids.
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