#green ants

[redrcs]

On the hunt.

Green ants bringing food back to the nest, Babinda.

On my travels

[rattyexplores]

Parasitic Fungi on Queens

Found these two on opposite sides of the tree. I guess these queens just got unlucky.

Parasite - Unidentified, family Cordycipitaceae

Host - Oecophylla smaragdina

22/02/23

[batbabydamian]

in the guard's defense, fire ants sting 😔

[plusie]

🌱 - realistic bug stuffies :3

[z-nogyrop]

truly cannot overstate how important it is for everyone to do research into local insect species and just try to notice them when you go outside. there are beautiful metallic blue mud dauber wasps where i live and they’re common in the summer but i just never noticed them until this past year. there are so many dragonflies at the local park. in one walk this june i found ebony jewelwing damselflies and an enormous stinkbug and an emerald-coloured tiger beetle and there is honest to god so much beauty in the insect world if you are willing to look for it

[anoant]

The Dave-verse

[ninjautizm]

Idk about you guys but I really love Lloyds little "🤨" eyebrow game he's got goin on,,

[cuttledreams-creatures]

What time is it? Invertober time! I'm really committing to finishing the prompt list this year.

First four entries of Invertober:

Sunburst Diving Beetle

Silvery Leaf Cutter Bee

Little Fire Ant

Emerald Green Snail

Invertober is put together by fossilforager! Prompt List

[laurearte]

😀😀 mon roi svp 😀😀 oui oui vos crocs la 😃😃😃

[yellowcorps]

oh god these bitches are AUTISTIC

[textless]

[lizallanosborn]

[rattyexplores]

Green Ants Severing a Leaf (?)

Oecophylla smaragdina

19/07/22

[futurebird]

The Dawn of the Age of the Ants

Sometimes a fossils are like photographs. These ants preserved in the Green River seem like they could come alive and walk right out of the stone.

Most fossils of ants are found in amber, due to their small size, sedimentary fossils must have exceptional fine grain detail to make ants recognizable.

The first image is from University of Colorado collection. https://fossilinsects.colorado.edu/

The second image I've been trying to track down-- I don't know where it is, but it is from Green River.

That first fossil is so beautiful I could cry. Look at her eye! what did she see in the Eocene? This at the dawn of the Age of the Ants... did she know her kind would inherit the whole world?

[doctorofmagic]

Doctor Strange spotted in the gn Spider-Man: Animals Assemble (2023)!

[trainerethan]

I like the idea of green always being a few CM taller than red throughout their childhood and being really obnoxious about it. Only for red to finally have a growth spurt while up mt. Silver so when green goes and finds him hes shocked to see red is a good few inches taller than him. When he realizes he has to ever so slightly look upwards to look red in the eyes he forgets what he was even saying to him and just stands there processing it. Red can't even be smug and happy about it because now it's harder for green to give him head pats and he has to awkwardly lean down to greens height anyways </3