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.

We have seen many cutter ant trails and ant hills, but never a grand entrance like this that Syd spotted today!

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?

A small (0.5 cm) ant pauses to “chat” with an even smaller ant before each continues on its way.