Ants!

[leiurus]

Here are some ants which are eating bread.
Look how cool they are!

 

[Navaros]

Cool. Macros make anything look awesome.

 

[Lochala]

We have sugar ants (aka piss ants) down here and they always go into a feeding frenzy when they find food.

 

[Cooper]

Ahhhh, tarantula killers!!! Cool pics

 

[leiurus]

thanks, I just put my finger next to the ants and all of them try to bite me



Dom

 

[Jesse607]

Those are "pavement ants" Tetramorium caespitum, they are very protective of their food sources and of course their nests. Their worst enemy is other pavement ants from different colonies. I often see mass battles on the edges of sidewalks, which appear to most people as just a mass of ants since the mass consists of only one species.

 

[phoenixxavierre]

I have a mixed sense of revulsion and respect/interest for ants. The odorous ants here (North Carolina coast) are bad, and their invasions cause me to be constantly on battle alert.

Recently I lost a very nice Haplopelma/Cyriopagopus? species to hordes of this species, not to mention roaches.

Last year I lost about $250 worth of livestock to this tiny but monstrous species!

I was, of course, very bummed! There's not a whole lot you can do here but smear vaseline, put out poison (which I dislike doing), constantly clean and kill these buggers by hand. What's amazing about the Odorous species is their ability for the colonies to reproduce at an amazing rate, plus their colonies are all interconnected.

They live above ground and are seen anywhere you go here.

Nice pics, Leiurus!


Awful and interesting at the same time!