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Climbing to the light!
A worker cocktail ant (possibly Crematogaster cornigera) having a little explore. They're called 'cocktail ants' because when they're alarmed they'll raise their gaster (last segment of their body) in a defensive pose.

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Ruddy-brown ant on a cylindrical piece of metal, climbing from the area in shade (bottom) to the area in light (top).

Trying to identify African Crematogaster is a mess. I *think* this photo I took in 2012 in Uganda shows C. nigrans, but there are a zillion published species names with inadequate descriptions and no modern research that ties these names to real world populations. #Taxonomy #Insects #Entomology #Ants #Crematogaster

Macro photo of a black ant with a pointy butt looking alert, antennae raised, standing on yellowish tree bark adorned with small lichens. The ant's head and thorax are striate-sculptured like corduroy, while the abdomen is more shining.

If you were feeling perky and wanted to learn a second genus, the obvious choice is Crematogaster, the acrobat ants. They're also found worldwide and are instantly identifiable for their unique, heart-shaped butts.

#Ants #Insects #Crematogaster

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Taxonomic-List-of-Ant-Genera/Crematogaster

Here is another ant. I still haven't gotten clarification on how the common names are applied to this group. I learned them as valentine ants, but it seems like most call them acrobat ants and yet others call them cocktail ants. If you know something about how or when to apply these common names, please let me know.

#Formicidae #Crematogaster #Ants #Insects #Nature #Photography #Oklahoma

A macro photo of a red and black ant from the top and side. Its head and thorax are a brownish red and fairly shiny. It has a small black eye and its mandibles are darker and highly textured. It has two sharp spines at the end of its thorax that point back to its black abdomen.

And now for some more ants! I spent years and years of my life studying wasps but I can't ever find them when I'm holding my camera. But hey, ants are still awesome. The one on the right must have found something delicious as she is sharing it through trophallaxis (aka the kiss of life? do ant experts really use this?) with her sister. I presume these are shiny acrobat ants but would love a correction.

#Insects #Nature #Photography #Ant #Oklahoma #Crematogaster #laeviuscula #InsectInteraction

Two ants with their mandables open and interlocked with a tiny drop of clear liquid in between them. They ants have heads and bodies that brownish red in color and their abdomens are a glossy black. The one on the right is receiving the droplet and she is standing in the rough tree bark opening of their nest.

Gathering together some of my ant digital drawings and thinking about doing more this winter.

I start missing ants a lot during winter. My colonies are asleep and there are no ants outside.

#art #drawing #AntArt #ants #camponotus #crematogaster #insects

A drawing of a brown and black crematogaster ant with a pointed gaster investigating a bit of candy with great caution.

One of the ants from my carpenter ant colony named "Dottie" because of the white paint on her gaster. She lived to be two years old. She's drawn from above and is a medium sized black ant with long legs.

A brown and deep red ant peers over the edge of a building at the city below.

A queen ant touched antennae with one of her daughters who is hanging from above.

Crematogaster crinosa acrobat ants visiting a Heliconia flower. Minca, Colombia.

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Six stout dark-colored ants stand facing in random directions on an orange-red substrate, in top view. The ants’ butts are shaped like pointy hearts.

Acrobat ants (Crematogaster crinosa) gather nectar from a Heliconia flower. Minca, Colombia.

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Six small, shiny, dark colored ants with pointy, heart-shaped abdomens photographed in direct top view facing random directions will standing on a fiery red to orange plant surface, spanning the entire frame of the image.

Here's an ant I don't see very often: Crematogaster rifelna, a small acrobat ant known only from south Texas and northeastern Mexico. Here, two nestmates are engaged in trophallaxis.

#Ants #Crematogaster #Insects

Two stout, shiny black ants with very pointy butts stand facing each other, barely touching, on a clean gray surface.

Did someone say #Ants ? These are Cocktail ants (Orthocrema sp.) eating some sort of hemipteran.

Wait, I feel a poll coming on...

Is it Valentine, Cocktail, or Acrobat? This really does need resolution in my scattered brain...

#Macro #Crematogaster #Insects #Colombia

Dozens of glossy black ants in and around the abdomen of a yellow bug. The ants have flattened heads and upturned triangular shaped gastors (abdomens). This is on a rusty railing.

It's Monday. So, here are some ants.

#Ants #Crematogaster #Insects

A top-down photograph showing a dozen or so shiny, cherry-red ants with black, heart-shaped butts standing close together on a tan limestone rock.

I just love treehoppers. They’re so… weird.

Here’s an Entylia being tended by an acrobat ant on sunflower. Texas.

#Insects #Treehoppers #Membracidae #Crematogaster

There are these cute, shiny, bicolor, chonky, little #ants that live in a stucco wrapped column outside of where I work. I suspect they are Crematogaster laeviuscula but I don't say that with much certainty. I'd love to catch a mated queen during their #NuptialFlight season.

#Crematogaster #Ant #AntsOfTheFediverse #ILikeAntsMoreThanPeople

New photo of one of our most abundant local ants, the acrobat ant Crematogaster laeviuscula.

#Ants #Crematogaster #Insects

Shiny red ant with a droplet-shaped black butt, on white

Las Crematogaster scutellaris me parecen unas hormigas preciosas, con su cabeza roja y su abdomen en forma de corazón, que levantan como los escorpiones cuando se sienten atacadas (por cierto, en esa actitud se les ve el aguijón). Son lignícolas, con gran preferencia por los alcornoques, por lo que se las considera una plaga, pues con sus galerías dañan el corcho, que pierde calidad. Estas las encontré sobre un alcornoque descorchado el año pasado, el cual presentaba esas estructuras esféricas, de menos de 1 cm de diámetro, de color negro brillante y recubiertas de algo blanquecino que me recuerda a las ceras que secretan algunas cochinillas. No tengo ni idea de qué son: hongo, mixomiceto, alguna goma, resina o taninos del propio alcornoque, cochinillas... No lo sé. El caso es que estas estructuras tienen un poro en su base por el cual asoma una gotita del líquido que contienen y que las hormigas libaban con gusto.

#hormiga #ant #fourmi #Crematogaster #CrematogasterScutellaris #insecto #insect #bicho #bug #nature #naturaleza #alcornoque #QuercusSuber

Hormiga Crematogaster scutellaris libando en la estructura descrita anteriormente.

2023 Photo Challenge 115/365
This was a shot of my ants, they are Crematogaster if I got my names right. They are thirsty girls and you can see the sizes vary. I didn't have to do much slider work but did to a bunch of clean up as they are a bit messy. Little bits and pieces were everywhere. I also removed the highlights and camera reflection from the drop. #macro #ants #crematogaster #photoshopedit #2023photochallenge

10 Crematogaster ants sipping from water droplet with one coming to get some. They are in a purple plastic cap.

A Crematogaster acrobat ant gathers honeydew from a sunflower-feeding Entylia treehopper. Austin, Texas.

#Ants #Treehoppers #Membracidae #Entomology #Ecology #Honeydew #Photography #Crematogaster

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