A living door ant, Colobopsis impressa, has a cork-shaped head for plugging up her nest. Florida. #ants #colobopsis #interesting #insects

I like the imagery, but not the text. Title this cartoon!

@futurebird

This beautiful lady is Solenopsis invicta. Measuring barely over 2 mm long, she is a member of an incredibly successful species.

Unfortunately, she is far outside her native range, and doing incredible damage to her local ecosystem.

It isn't her fault that she's a fire ant.

#nature #natur #insects #insekten #ants #waldameisen
Häuschen bauen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59NPPsnLiKo

Noticed a couple #ants today on my walk that seemed to be... fighting was my first thought, but is almost certainly wrong. Communicating, I would guess, though it looks to me like one of those slap-fights in cartoons.

@futurebird probably knows what they're up to.

apparently, over 75 million years ago there was such thing as... Saber-Tooth Ants.
#ants #yes

A winged ant on a floating leaf. He was in the water until he washed up on the leaf's shore, Robinson Crusoe-like. Here he stands, drying himself in the sun.

Saw one in my backyard today.
https://mastodon.art/@jencmars/114248382633016749
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The winter ants were deploying alates this afternoon

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The winter ants were deploying alates this afternoon

Partly sunny with a chance of passing showers and flying #ants.
#PRwx #mastodonPR #PuertoRico

cc @futurebird

Wood ants start their collective hard work as Spring arrives in the #NewForest #ants #EarlySpring

Inspiriert von dem tollen Tierfotograf Chris Kaula und seinem schönen Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aWM24AulgI anbei 2 ungewöhnliche "Ameisen"-Fotos
Dieser Effekt ist wirklich simpel zu erzeugen. Probiert es ruhig mal aus!

Fotos & Videos - Woche 13-2017
Compilation Week 13-2017

https://archive.org/details/063580
#Wochenschau -> https://www.goehde.com/fotos/index.php?/category/47012

first ant spotting of the season. #ants #instects #entymology

Die Waldameisen im Berggarten haben ihren Haufen schon größtenteils repariert und sind jetzt mächtig am Wuseln.

Exam in progress

Evolution, from speciation to conflict and cooperation bwn species

New element
Draw pictures in answers
Had students practice all semester
One drawing lesson per lecture

Also checking on Philip Ball's
#HowLifeWorks

@futurebird So tell me, she who knows, I've got some bugs coming up in the next section of my series of novellas. What's a good documentary on ant behaviour, possibly bees, for me to steal some cool bits for my alien bugs? My characters will be literally crawling into the nest, so I need a good primer. A lecture recorded at a university might also work.