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A Formica incerta field ant worker drinks nectar from a Queen Anne's Lace. Tennessee.

Macro photo of a large, leggy, shiny orange ant in oblique face/side view with its head partway into a small white flower, in a field of dozens of similar flowers. The ant's head has a light dusting of white pollen.

Silky field ants tending black locust treehoppers for honeydew. Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

#Ants #Insects #Nature #Treehoppers #Formica

Image showing a tree stem cutting diagonally across an unfocused green sunlit backdrop, with two leggy gray ants, one above and one below, antennating lumpish brown bugs on the stem.

The #slave #ant #Formica #fusca (#Formicinae) is seen here on common #tansy collecting #honeydew from and guarding the #aphid #Metopeurum #fuscoviride. The #workers of this ant #species, which builds #polygynous subterranean nests, are often exploited by other species for nest building. As C. Carere et al. (2018) found, there is a linear link between #individual and #collective #behavior.

©#StefanFWirth Berlin 2025

Ref
C. Carere et al. (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2018.07.009

#Photos
©S F. Wirth 2025

Worker of Formica fusca can live 8 years and longer and are here seen on flower heads of common tansy guarding the pink tansy aphid Metopeurum fuscoviride and collecting honeydew from it. Berlin, a dry meadow nearby urban park Goethepark, © Stefan F. Wirth July 2025

The #Norwaymaple #Acer #platanoides is a native #tree of (Central) #Europe that spread northward after the last #IceAge along with mixed oak forests and is still commonly found in such #treecommunities today. Like all #trees, it offers #habitats for numerous organisms, forming complex macro#ecosystems, e.g., the #leaves, where #aphids feed, while the #ant #Formica #fusca is collecting their excretions (honeydew) as food.
#ecology #evolution
© #StefanFWirth #Berlin May 2025

#Photos
© S.F. Wirth

Leaf of Norway maple in Berlin on a meadow near park Goethepark, May 2025, © StefanFWirth

A Formica fusca worker on a leaf of a Norway maple in Berlin on a meadow near park Goethepark, May 2025, © StefanFWirth

The #duskyant, #Formica #fusca (#Myrmicinae), is a ground-dwelling #ant with #earthnests in warmer habitats, widespread in #CentralEurope and extending across the western #Palearctic. The nests are #polygynous (severely active #queens). Like many ant species, this one also carries #phoretic organisms on its body, e.g., #mites of the #Histiostomatidae. #biodiversity #insects #Hymenoptera

Artistic Photo:

#Worker of F. fusca Berlin, May 2025, © S.F. Wirth

Worker of Formica fusca in Berlin, May 2025, © S.F. Wirth

Voor deze keuken in Diest kozen we voor de kleuren “Antique White” en “Earthenware” van #Formica, afgewerkt met bijpassende terracotta greepjes.
Het werkblad is uitgevoerd in “Bianco Cristal Poli” van #Unistone.
Het onderstel werd gepoedercoat in exact dezelfde kleur als de ramen.

QUILLAN (11) : Une bourgade frappée par la crise de la chapellerie, qui devient la capitale du #Formica jusqu’a la fermeture de l’usine qui le produit en 2004..
Très souvent associé au verre #Duralex, mais contrairement à ce dernier toxique, très toxique 😵
#Industrie #Aude #Occitanie #Quillan #TrenteGlorieuses
https://www.terrestres.org/2025/04/07/le-formica-histoire-toxique/
Lucile Truffy @terrestres

Ants in the spring sun #ants #formica #spring #insect

Project Atlantic. Step 7. From Soulac to Royan. An easy day. I take the boat accross the Gironde with my bicycle. Royan holds on to its dream of plastic and concrete. The café des bains has become a cheap surf shop. #projectatlantic #royan #formica #bike

‘’Formica’’
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#streetphotography #photography #photosderue #purestreetphotographie #sonyalpha #vintage #formica

The #antbagbeetle #Clytra laeviuscula (#Chrysomelidae, #Coleoptera) is a #phytophagous #beetle #species widespread in Europe with a #myrmicophilic relationship of the #larvae and #pupae to #antnests of the genera #Formica, #Lasius and Camponotus. The larva lives mainly from the food of the ant larvae. It is protected from ant attacks by own dropping pieces (#skatoconches). Pupation also takes place in this protected manner. #evolution #biodiversity

Giustamente dopo aver visto e fotografato una #formica stamattina, stasera mi serviva il canto di una #cicala autunnale affinché fosse sempre vera e valida la #favola.
Sono almeno 45 minuti che canta ininterrottamente 😩

Immagine da web in cui una cicala passa il tempo suonando il violino mentre una formica sta sotto il peso di una foglia

Ants are not ideal pollinators, as they don't move as efficiently among plants as do flying insects. But they are capabable of picking up and moving at least some pollen, as demonstrated by this Formica incerta field ant on Queen Anne's Lace. Townsend, Tennessee.

#Ants #Formica #Insects #Pollinators #photography

Close-up photograph of a shiny, leggy orange ant in oblique face view with its head in a cluster of small white flowers, lightly dusted in whitish pollen.

A wily field ant- Formica dolosa- gathers nectar from a flower at Indiana Dunes National Park.

#Insects #Bloomscrolling #Ants #Formica #nature

Macro photograph of a large, leggy, dull orange ant with its face jammed into the yellow center of a slightly raised white floret as if it were a drinking fountain in a field of similar florets. The ant’s head is coated in fine pollen grains.

I didn’t have the time to participate in most of the recent #plotparty but I at least did a bunch of postcards to send out to folks. This pattern, as you might guess, is inspired by the #formica boomerang pattern, and I wrote some code to create random boomerang shapes. Some of them were more successful than others, but I kinda like how the weird ones came out. The placement of the boomerangs was massaged by hand, so that the boomerang of the same color would not overlap

Several white postcards, with rounded boomerang like shapes, in three overlapping colors per card, with assorted combinations of colors on different cards. The shapes are drawn with a fat brush marker

My #Formica #subsericea queen is very skittish and if there is a loud nose or vibrations she runs out of her nest and tries to hide in the water feeder. Only she is much too large for this to work. Poor girl.

#antdrawings #antart #ants #antqueen

Black line drawing of a large ant with her head in one of the ports of a water feeder, a smaller worker ant looks at her with questions marks suggesting confusion.

Pleased with this shot of a field ant (Formica subsericea) grabbing a pile of eggs. Tennessee.

#Insects #Ants #Formica

Macro photo, portrait orientation, of a silvery gray ant, her mandibles open around dozens of small white jelly bean shaped objects.

Even the queen moves quickly. They are always fighting over who gets to carry what. There is generally a small clutch of eggs in the nest and I have never seen them set it down. An ant is always proudly holding the cluster of new eggs and she won’t let her sisters help her hold it. I think they must sit it down when it’s dark and quiet in the nest— but if I’m taking photos? well we never get to see them calm first that reason! Ants notice photographers! #formica #ants #antvideo

Having fun with a new clip-on macro lens watching some #formica (pratensis, I think) that seem to have made home on raspberries 🐜🖤 They’ve curled up some leaves with many ants hiding inside them, but still no aphids nowhere to be seen

#entomology #Myrmecology #Insecs

Close-up of ants on an unripe raspberry fruit

Close-up of an ant on a dew-covered raspberry leaf.

We’ve had these ants (Black-backed Meadow Ants, I think) in the garden for couple years now. The workers seem to be larger than last year, I guess they’re doing well 🐜. Ants often get bad rep in #gardening, but we never had any issues with these, all the berry plants around them are as productive as ever and here they even seem to maybe be getting in on #pollination

#entomology #Myrmecology #Formica #polyculture

#Formica

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