My ants collection. Please correct me if you come across any ID mistakes :)
A bunch of
Polyrhachis sp. ants with pupae, in between two leaves. Found them after a rather heavy downpour.
A
Camponotus sp. ant and a treehopper.
A
Camponotus sp. ant and a spittle bug nymph in the foam.
A group of yellow crazy ants attacking a beetle. For more beetles of Malaysia, click
here.
Black queen ant (
Polyrhachis sp.?)with a red mite.
Meranoplus sp.
Polyrhachis sp. queen ant.
Two
Polyrhachis sp. ants having an argument.
Another
Polyrhachis sp. ant.
Trap jaw ant
Trap jaw ant attacking a caterpillar
Polyrhachis sp. ant having a tug of war
A robber fly with prey - winged ant. More robber flies
here.
Bluish ant,
Echinopla sp.? For more cool, blue insect, click
here.
Bluish ant,
Echinopla sp.? with pupa
Crematogaster sp. ant?
Dead ant, fungus victim.
A male ant-mimic crab spider
Amyciaea lineatipes with prey - a weaver ant. More of these cool ant-mimic crab spiders
here and
here (mating shots :D).
Gnamptogenys sp. ant.
Gnamptogenys sp. ant with food.
A queen ant,
Myrmicaria sp.
A mating pair of assassin bugs with
Myrmicaria sp. queen ant prey, and a voyeuristic yellow crazy ant:D. More bugs porn
here.
Myrmicaria sp. ant
A robber fly with queen ant prey. More robber flies
here.
Huntsman spider with ant prey. Night macro. More tropical spiders
here.
A dead ant and an aphid.
Tetraponera sp. ant
Tetraponera sp. queen ant
Camponotus sp. ant glued to the leaf. Not sure what was going on.
Camponotus sp. ant
Camponotus sp. ant.
A dead
Camponotus gigas ant being eaten by a zombie ant
Ophiocordyceps fungus
A dead
Camponotus gigas ant being eaten by a zombie ant
Ophiocordyceps fungus
Camponotus gigas ant under attack by
Phoridae flies.
Camponotus gigas ant carrying a dead grasshopper.
Camponotus sp. ant.
Portrait of a major worker ant of
Camponotus sp.
Camponotus sp. queen ant
Assassin bug nymph,
Acanthaspis petax, with ant prey, and ant carcasses on its back.
A Branded Imperial butterfly and an ant. More butterflies
here.
The same Branded Imperial with the same ant, closer.
Weaver ants with dead wasp. More wasps
here.
Weaver ant biting me :D
Weaver ant queen
A wet weaver ant queen
Two weaver ant queens
A young weaver ant queen and her new colony, with pupae at different stages of development.
Crematogaster inflata ant.
Three ants.
Meranoplus sp.
Polyrhachis sp. ants with pupae
A mated queen ant,
Cataulacus sp.
Tiny bathroom ant..about 1.35mm long, shot at 5X with the MP-E65
A
Diacamma sp. ant, and a sow bug. Lit by a single
270EX on FMMB.
A Malaysian black and gold huntsman and a fearless yellow crazy ant. More tropical spiders
here.
A mirid bug,
Kosmiomiris rubroornatus, with Union Jack marking, and a tiny ant.
A tiger beetle with a dead ant's head on its antenna. More beetles of Malaysia
here.
Ants and butterfly mutualism
Unkown queen ant
Dolichoderus sp. ant
Polyrhachis sp. ant tending scale insects
Polyrhachis sp. ant
Marauder ant (Pheidologeton sp.). Minor workers, and a supermajor worker on a tree trunk at night.
Besides minor workers, supermajor worker, there is a major worker too in this image.
A hardworking weaver ant building nest at night, alone!
Male Ponerine ant
All images taken with a Canon 40D,
MP-E 65
macro lens, and
MT-24EX Twin Lite
.
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