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Ant photography thread

Started By Billy , Sep 9 2015 7:47 AM

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#581 Offline gcsnelling - Posted May 29 2021 - 4:34 PM

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But I have a better camera now.


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#582 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted May 29 2021 - 5:48 PM

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Very cute callow

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My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#583 Offline PogoQueen - Posted May 31 2021 - 9:19 AM

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*shivers*

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#584 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted May 31 2021 - 12:59 PM

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*shivers*


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My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#585 Offline ConcordAntman - Posted June 8 2021 - 10:42 AM

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A pair of C. pennsylvanicus workers from my June 2020 colony grooming themselves in front of the brood pile. 
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My C. americanus continue to survive. 
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#586 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted June 8 2021 - 12:35 PM

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I know this isn’t the best photo or quality D: but this is lasius interjectus do it was really cool to see them above ground

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My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#587 Offline Leo - Posted June 8 2021 - 5:14 PM

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Strumigenys sp

 


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#588 Offline ZTYguy - Posted June 8 2021 - 6:07 PM

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36761397-2D08-47EB-926C-32F74E8A7DBB.jpeg Acromyrmex versicolor 

 

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Currently: Considering moving to Australia
Reason: Myrmecia

#589 Offline Leo - Posted June 8 2021 - 6:17 PM

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She's so damn fuzzy  :D  (meranoplus bicolor)

 


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#590 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted June 8 2021 - 6:45 PM

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She's so damn fuzzy :D (meranoplus bicolor)

Omg I've been trying to get those since I heard about them. They're just so dang cute!

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Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

YouTube: https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)

Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), ★ Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#591 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted July 27 2021 - 6:41 PM

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Aphenogaster cf. rudis to queen colony.
Edit: it’s not rudis

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Edited by AntBoi3030, August 15 2021 - 1:22 PM.

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My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#592 Offline futurebird - Posted August 28 2021 - 2:05 PM

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Pogonomyrmex brood.

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holding a single egg

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what kind of seed is that?

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major and minor

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Starting this July I'm posting videos of my ants every week on youTube.

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#593 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted September 11 2021 - 6:04 PM

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Your favorite ant drinking poison:

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I got an extremely expensive macro lens that was 100% worth it. I never could have gotten these photos with my old one.


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#594 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted September 12 2021 - 10:21 AM

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Selonopsis molesta

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My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#595 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted September 12 2021 - 10:34 AM

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Tapinoma sessile

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1X Pogonomyrmex occidentalis 40-50 Workers

1X Solenopsis molesta 10 Workers (mono)

Ants I Want: Crematogaster sp, Camponotus Sp., Ponera Pennsylvanica, Mymercocystus sp.

 

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#596 Offline ANTdrew - Posted September 12 2021 - 10:53 AM

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Tapinoma sessile

I can almost like this species for a moment looking at these plump workers.
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#597 Offline futurebird - Posted September 12 2021 - 11:04 AM

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She's big and beefy.

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I wish one could play with ant queens and let them crawl on your hands, but photos will have to do. Don't want to spook a bussy single mum..

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#598 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted September 12 2021 - 11:28 AM

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She's big and beefy.I wish one could play with ant queens and let them crawl on your hands, but photos will have to do. Don't want to spook a bussy single mum..[img


Look are all those eggs!

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My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#599 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted September 12 2021 - 11:33 AM

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My attempt at taking a photo with an all white background

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Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#600 Offline futurebird - Posted September 16 2021 - 4:35 PM

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Some photos of one of my eastern blacks eclosing

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Using her jaws for the first time, much to the chagrin of her nurse maids
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