An Azteca ant inside her brood nest in a hollow Cecropia tree stem.

What she is holding is not an egg or a larva (those are the lumpy things with the interior dark patch) but a food body produced by the tree specifically to feed the ants, as they protect the tree from caterpillars. Colombia.

#Ants #Azteca #Ecology #Evolution #Cecropia #Insects

Nocturnal Gardeners: The Case of Tent-Roosting Bats https://www.botany.one/the-jungles-heaviest-courier-service-the-case-of-tent-roosting-bats/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.70179

"Unlike #birds, many #bats do not consume fruit where they find it; they capture it in flight and transport it to a safe refuge to eat in peace. In the case of tent-roosting bats, these shelters are plant leaves that the bats themselves modify to form a kind of tent or canopy... Tent-roosting bats of #Mexico's #Lacandon #Rainforest disperse up to 79.8 million large seeds annually"

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Followed the drumming sound and came across this Ruffed Grouse in the bush. He tried to walk away ever so slowly. Full show on display: the tail fan and the neck ruff.
Another one was with him, no display, and far less shy.

#birds #chickens #nature #spring