Two different species of ants trying to make sense of their paths as they run into each other. No hostility I think, but there does seem to be a bit of confusion. My moving the camera all over the place doesn’t help. But neat: something we haven’t seen before.
Tag: ants
Grand entrance
We have seen many cutter ant trails and ant hills, but never a grand entrance like this that Syd spotted today!
Ants and acacia
Ants are, of course, amazing. What’s unusual about this trail is that we could actually find the end of it; usually the trails disappear in the undergrowth, often after a far greater distance than this.
Regardless, the question remains: why weren’t they harvesting the closer acacia bush?
High-speed ant hill…
…and a gratuitous (but funny) comment about local drivers.
Ants at work, late afternoon
Ant parades
Two sizes of ants share a pathway across a paver block in our local park. It looks like the bigger ones are simply steamrolling over the smaller ones. Wild stuff.
Cutter ants harvesting acacia flowers
Busy little ants harvesting acacia flowers, with a brief interruption from Jordan.
Video-wind-blown ants
The hapless ant: an exposed portion of the ant trail on a breezy day.
Ants, side gate video???
We have a side gate rarely used. Ants go across the top of it to go up the wall. I assume they are harvesting guano from the bats that are sometimes in residence there.
I opened the gate the other day and, noting the ants’ confusion, left it overnight to see how they resolved the issue the next day.
Next day, I forgot about it. Until our dog joined us in the nearby park. I had left the front gate open, and the rear sliding glass door, and it hadn’t taken him long to figure out he could push the side gate open.
The ants had established a new route along the ground, but the old scent pathway was still there and so a few made it out on the gate, only to have to turn around and go back.
I closed the gate again. Have at it, ants!
(I left the sound because at times it has been so noisy lately.)
Busy-ness underfoot
When you slow down and look down, sometimes you find an amazing amount of activity.