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Alex Wild
@alexwild@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

A gallery of ant queens from around the world.

#ants #QueenAnts #Insects

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Natural-History/Queen-Ants

Queen Ants - Alex Wild

Images of the female reproductive caste.
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Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@alexwild 🤩 😍 🤩

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myrmepropagandist
@futurebird@sauropods.win replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@alexwild

This one is by far the most wild! How to drop off your eggs so that some other ants will raise and feed them?

Become a literal third wheel.

Imagine finding random extra babies in your nursery every morning— makes cuckoo birds seem tame.

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Natural-History/Queen-Ants/i-vChwDDZ

Solenopsis phoretica & Pheidole dentata

Among the oddest of all ants is the tiny Solenopsis phoretica, a presumably parasitic species whose females ride piggyback on Pheidole queens. Nearly nothing is known about its biology, having only been collected twice. Austin, Texas, USA.
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