#Cephalotes

[snototter]

A colony of gliding ants (Cephalotes atratus) in Ecuador

by Graham Wise

[futurebird]

Checking in with Cephalotes clypeatus, the Amber Turtle Ant's Bid to Win the Ant Beauty Contest

Hey lil turtle ant! How is the beauty contest going?

Yes, you! You are one of the most lovely ants!

That's not true! You have such a lovely shield-shaped head.

So you aren't worried about if you win or not? You even have fans cheering you on! (@polarized-here)

I know you will little turtle ant! Vote for Cephalotes clypeatus!

[baggebythesea]

Throw me to the ants and I'll block the door with my THICK HEAD!

Thinking of becoming a guy that thinks wolves are the most badass and aspirational animal, but about ants. Like wearing t-shirts about being loyal to my Queen and training to bench 5x my bodyweight. Studying ant warfare. Posting shit like this

[drafthearse]

Siphamia cephalotes, Wood's Siphonfish. St Leonard's Jetty, Port Phillip, Victoria.

[doctordoombignaturals]

if king boo had an animal sona it'd be an octopus do you see my vision here

[pepikhipik]

Obnovující se krajina po požáru svědčí suchomilným druhům brouků

V květnu 2012 zasáhl požár přibližně 165 hektarů lesa v oblasti Moravské Sahary. Výzkum ukázal, že požár měl pozitivní dopad na obnovu biodiverzity. Vědci a vědkyně z Lesnické a dřevařské a Agronomické fakulty MENDELU pod vedením Emanuela Kuly se zaměřili na to, jak požár a následné lesnické zásahy ovlivňují společenstva střevlíkovitých brouků v písčitých lesích nacházející se na jihu Moravy.…

[randomly-assigning-bugs]

Cephalotes atratus | turtle ant

MY OVARIES!!!!!!

[hiimrock1]

On the way to the mushroom farm (Atta cephalotes)

[wikimediauncommons]

file: Cephalotes atratus casent0173663 profile 1.jpg

[antiqueanimals]

Leafcutter ant (Atta cephalotes). The Entomologist's Text Book. Written and illustrated by John Obadiah Westwood. 1838.

Internet Archive

[spiny-ant]

Just looked through your stimboard tag (love all of them) but I noticed you don’t have a turtle ant (Cephalotes varians) one!

Could I request one for them? Not sure on a stim theme, so do whatever feels best for them

The forbidden oreo...

🕳️-🕳️-🕳️|🕳️-🐜-🕳️|🕳️-🕳️-🕳️

[futurebird]

She's a cutting machine! Like a circle cutter with legs come to life!

Her body is designed to cut and haul maximum LEAF.

What a triumph!

Oh you might not like it. You might get mad. But THIS is what peak performance looks like:

The book “Gardening Ants: The Attines” (Weber) is old but it has so many banger illustrations. Here is one showing the size difference in Atta cephalotes minors and majors. This difference is entirely caused by how the ants are fed and cared for. Ants have so much variability in gene expression and they use it to shape their population to fit the work that needs to be done. (I love the naturalistic placement of the minor on the major’s head, they do hang out like this.)

When atta are cutting a leaf they make stridulations (vibrations too hight-pitched for human hearing) by moving their exoskeleton. This noise isn't just a result of the cutting, it's an extra noise that carries through the plant, letting other ants know the quality of the leaf. The higher quality the leaf the more intense the sounds she will make calling more ants to the place where the leaves are at the perfect level of development for fungus farming.

Wonder if plants are alarmed by this?

[azhdarchidae]

bug comms. atta cephalotes with the coloration of chocolant from bugsnax, chalcophora virginiensis, and cephonodes hylas

taking more slots for these, 10 usd base price but will increase detail/add shading if tipped

[vonalkazottfejulapiposzata]

Férjem látott egy bogarat, valószínűleg nagy selymesfutó, de sajnos nem

és sajnos nem

árvafutonc (Amblystomus) nem Erichson, 1837

és nem

gödörkés lomhafutó (Harpalus autumnalis) Duftschmid, 1812

és nem

busafejű selymesfutó (Harpalus cephalotes cephalotes) Fairmaire & Laboulbène, 1854

és nem

nagyfejű tömzsifutó (Pangus scaritides) Sturm, 1818

és nem

pompás törpefutonc (Acupalpus elegans) Dejean, 1829

és nem

karcsú kisdedfutó (Anthracus longicornis) Schaum, 1857

és nem

négyfoltos fövenyfutonc (Lionychus quadrillum) Duftschmid, 1812

és nem

busafejű posványfutonc (Badister dorsiger) Duftschmid, 1812

és nem

termetes kisfutó (Limodromus longiventris) Mannerheim, 1825

és nem

sutafutó (Polistichus) nem Bonelli, 1810

de azért aranyos.

[jupiterswasphouse]

There's tons of different wasps I would be ecstatic to see in person. A few of them are like, tropical or desert wasps, but, among the ones that are actually more general in terms of locale, one type I'm quite particular towards is the Ectemnius genus of Square-Headed Wasps.

[Image Sources: Bees Wasps & Ants Recording Society, and JungleDragon, Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers | Image IDs: Two photos of Ectemnius cephalotes, a black and yellow Square-Headed Wasp, as viewed with their rectangular faces as the focus of the shot /End IDs.]

... I'm sure you can guess why they call them that.

[historicalbookimages]

🌏 Comprehensive catalogue of Queensland plants Brisbane, A. J. Cumming, government printer[pref. 1909] Original source Image description: Historical botanical illustration depicting three Cyperaceae species native to Queensland, Australia: Cyperus pumilus, C. cephalotes, and C. cuspidatus. Each plant is drawn with detailed emphasis on their root systems, slender stems, and distinctive cluster-like inflorescences. The image includes smaller inset sketches highlighting specific features such as glumes and nutlets. The page is from a 1909 government-printed catalogue, with scientific names and authorship listed below the illustrations. The drawings are finely detailed in black ink on a cream background, emphasizing morphological traits for plant identification.