We had a fence panel moved in the garden today. I'm not sure the ants who were nesting up against the concrete base were especially impressed.

#ants

@futurebird (or anyone else who's knowledgeable about #ants )

Are these eggs?

This is the third time the ants have piled them in our mailbox. The 2 prior times they removed them within a couple days.

How do we convince them to NOT keep piling eggs (or whatever these are) in our mailbox?

@futurebird@sauropods.win my tree ants are back

#ants #gardening

@futurebird@sauropods.win my tree ants are back

#ants #gardening

This is Psalidomyrmex. It is an African ant that hunts earthworms. Which, fair enough, is a habit that probably merits weird mandibles.

But I just learned they don't need to have slicing mandibles, just grabby ones, because earthworms drop their tails when attacked, so the ants just haul them off like they were harvesting fruit. #Ants #Insects #Biology #Psalidomyrmex

This is Psalidomyrmex. It is an African ant that hunts earthworms. Which, fair enough, is a habit that probably merits weird mandibles.

But I just learned they don't need to have slicing mandibles, just grabby ones, because earthworms drop their tails when attacked, so the ants just haul them off like they were harvesting fruit. #Ants #Insects #Biology #Psalidomyrmex

Aw give me a home
where the fat aphids roam
and naive slow crickets will play...

Were seldom is left
a bad pheromone path
and the skies are not cloudy all day

Home, home in the branch
where naive slow crickets will play!
Well catch em all fast
cricket legs for breakfast
and the skies are not cloudy all day

#ants #songs #poem

(drawing from:https://www.etsy.com/listing/1188122763/cute-red-ant-stickers-planner-stickers?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=ant+stickers&ref=sr_gallery-1-23&sca=1&organic_search_click=1)