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KanaMaunaJune 24th in #TheFarSide desk calendar.
Bonus cute photo of a queen and her minima worker. I love how the caption implies that the scientist could not separate them! 💗🐜 #ants #atta #queenant #leafcutters #antposting #antqueen
Alex WildThree cheers for the queen! Not sure what I said that made her blush like this, though.
(This is a young Myrmecocystus placodops honeypot queen, from Texas).
Often, ant colonies will have more than one queen.
Sometimes, colonies will have dozens, or even hundreds. This is a nest of little fire ants, Wasmannia auropunctata, in Puerto Rico.
The queens are obvious, but do you see the much smaller worker ants?
The queen!
Pheidole hyatti big-headed ant, photographed just this week at UTAustin’s fabulous Brackenridge Field Laboratory.
There is very little literature on Dorymyrmex ensifer, & I'm bringing them up again hoping someone keeps them. These #ants are found in #Chile. They live in sand dunes. Perhaps that is the purpose of their striking clear/sandy color.
Look at them! They are lovely!
#mantsodon #queenant #arthrodon #arthropods
(Images from: https://antwiki.org/wiki/Dorymyrmex_ensifer)
Update: They are native to #Argentina but the one person I knew who had them was from Chile. Going to see if there is more information on them now.
#ants, #antkeeping, #camponotus, #atta, #queenant, #Hymenoptera, #eusocial, #arthropods, #formica, #antnest, #formicarium, #ant, #flyingantday, #lasius, #fireant, #polyrachis, #Dynomyrmex, #Formicidae, #Aculeata, #antalgorithim, #eusocialintelligence, #Doleromyrma, #Leptomyrmex, #mutualism, #Trophobiosis, #Coevolution, #Myrmecophily
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