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Started By Billy , Sep 9 2015 7:47 AM

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#561 Offline NPLT - Posted May 17 2021 - 3:24 PM

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Yup. Its true, here are the ants of Poland on Inat:  https://www.inatural...&taxon_id=47336

i dunno, I'm not seeing it, they all seem better than anything my dinky camera ever took.


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#562 Offline ANTdrew - Posted May 17 2021 - 3:25 PM

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What a beautiful Formica, irregardless.
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#563 Offline NickAnter - Posted May 17 2021 - 3:36 PM

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 irregardless.

Nice try. :D


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Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#564 Offline ANTdrew - Posted May 17 2021 - 4:07 PM

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Yeah, just fishing for an excuse to drop that word.
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#565 Offline NickAnter - Posted May 17 2021 - 4:21 PM

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Stupid dictionaries, giving support to that word, they are so clearly wrong. Its the same as a double negative! It is equivalent to saying you "don't have nothing"; if you do not have nothing, then you must have something, which is the opposite of nothing!!!!!

 

Dorymyrmex insanus:

 

 

Screenshot 2021 05 17 Rare Closeup Footage Of Newborn Pyramid Ant Worker (1)
Screenshot 2021 05 17 Rare Closeup Footage Of Newborn Pyramid Ant Worker

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Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#566 Offline Barristan - Posted May 19 2021 - 10:44 AM

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My small Camponotus lateralis colony moved into their new nest. The queen has been busy the last days and laid a lot of eggs:
 

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#567 Offline Mettcollsuss - Posted May 19 2021 - 12:18 PM

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Figured this was worth sharing. This is what happened when I hit cancel halfway through the image stacking process. A glowing Aphaenogaster picea worker floating in the void.

 

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#568 Offline Barristan - Posted May 19 2021 - 12:20 PM

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So Elon Musk now also puts ants into space xd.


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#569 Offline NPLT - Posted May 19 2021 - 2:30 PM

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Weren't there already a couple hundred T. caespitum workers on the ISS ( and because of that the dreaded gel ant farm was invented )


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#570 Offline madbiologist - Posted May 24 2021 - 5:57 PM

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Got some photos of Crematogaster cerasi preforming trophyllaxis recently, even managed 4 workers in what you might call a quad-ryllaxis.  :D 

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I also went anting on Sunday and grabbed some Aphaenogaster tennesseensis shots!

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#571 Offline madbiologist - Posted May 24 2021 - 6:01 PM

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No, believe me, you rarely see photos on inat that are better than that.

What?! But in my photo, like, half of the ant is blurry, the composition is all bad, hell the ant is not in the center of the photo, it wasn't even done with anything professional but a cheap clip-on macro lens for a phone.

 

I actually quite like the composition and details you got, it's an impressive shot for a phone!


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#572 Offline NickAnter - Posted May 24 2021 - 6:35 PM

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Those last Aphaenogaster shots are incredible!!! Very nice job!! (y)


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Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#573 Offline Barristan - Posted May 28 2021 - 12:52 PM

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Two pictures from a Leptothorax + Temnothorax photo shotting a few years ago:

 

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Leptothorax acervorum
 
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Temnothorax sp.

 

I used an external flash + soft box to take these pictures:

 

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#574 Offline PetsNotPests - Posted May 28 2021 - 1:07 PM

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Those are some awesome pics!


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Ants are Pets, not Pests. 

 

-Camponotus sansabeanus

-Camponotus US-CA02

-Camponotus vicinus

-Formica podzolica

-Monomorium spp.

-Pogonomyrmex californicus

-Solenopsis spp. 

 

#575 Offline ConcordAntman - Posted May 29 2021 - 9:36 AM

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Barristan, what lenses are you using?


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#576 Offline ConcordAntman - Posted May 29 2021 - 9:46 AM

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Some new shots of my charges. 
 

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#577 Offline Barristan - Posted May 29 2021 - 11:35 AM

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Those are some awesome pics!

 

Thank you!

 

 

Barristan, what lenses are you using?

 

I use a Canon Power Shot SX 50HS with Raynox DCR-250 close-up lense


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#578 Offline Barristan - Posted May 29 2021 - 12:02 PM

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Messor barbarus media worker crawling on my hand:

 

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#579 Offline gcsnelling - Posted May 29 2021 - 1:08 PM

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Camponotus from a few days ago.
 
camponotus
 
Lasius taking down a beetle.
 
ants beetle 1e

 

 


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#580 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 29 2021 - 3:03 PM

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Camponotus from a few days ago.
 
 
 
Lasius taking down a beetle.
 
 

 

 

 

Reminds me of reading your old threads on Antdude's forum when I first got into ants.


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