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On her way to work... for some reason I don't have a photo of the bright yellow aphids the ants were hanging around. On a swan plant
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actual observation time: 2:53pm
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Ants bringing all manner of unrecognisable morsels to their nest in a manmade rock wall. Only things I recognised were a seed and some small grubs.
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Ants bringing all manner of unrecognisable morsels to their nest in a manmade rock wall. Only things I recognised were a seed and some small grubs.
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Ants bringing all manner of unrecognisable morsels to their nest in a manmade rock wall. Only things I recognised were a seed and some small grubs.
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Ants bringing all manner of unrecognisable morsels to their nest in a manmade rock wall. Only things I recognised were a seed and some small grubs.
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Ants bringing all manner of unrecognisable morsels to their nest in a manmade rock wall. Only things I recognised were a seed and some small grubs.
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I have photographed this ant colony a number of times, but didn't feel that I had a satisfactory closeup for a positive id. But this time I can see the jaws in one photo. These ants move at a measured pace not like other nearby ants that move very rapidly. I thought that all adult ants of a colony were the same size, but one of the ants here was noticeably smaller (see third photo) but appears to be the same species, and disappeared into the same nest entrance as the rest. They were busily gathering bite sized morsels from a discarded orange coloured waffle icecream cone. The colony was inside/behind a concrete or brick block wall joined with cement mortar holding up a sandy bank.
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I have photographed this ant colony a number of times, but didn't feel that I had a satisfactory closeup for a positive id. But this time I can see the jaws in one photo. These ants move at a measured pace not like other nearby ants that move very rapidly. I thought that all adult ants of a colony were the same size, but one of the ants here was noticeably smaller (see third photo) but appears to be the same species, and disappeared into the same nest entrance as the rest. They were busily gathering bite sized morsels from a discarded orange coloured waffle icecream cone. The colony was inside/behind a concrete or brick block wall joined with cement mortar holding up a sandy bank.
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I have photographed this ant colony a number of times, but didn't feel that I had a satisfactory closeup for a positive id. But this time I can see the jaws in one photo. These ants move at a measured pace not like other nearby ants that move very rapidly. I thought that all adult ants of a colony were the same size, but one of the ants here was noticeably smaller (see third photo) but appears to be the same species, and disappeared into the same nest entrance as the rest. They were busily gathering bite sized morsels from a discarded orange coloured waffle icecream cone. The colony was inside/behind a concrete or brick block wall joined with cement mortar holding up a sandy bank.
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I have photographed this ant colony a number of times, but didn't feel that I had a satisfactory closeup for a positive id. But this time I can see the jaws in one photo. These ants move at a measured pace not like other nearby ants that move very rapidly. I thought that all adult ants of a colony were the same size, but one of the ants here was noticeably smaller (see third photo) but appears to be the same species, and disappeared into the same nest entrance as the rest. They were busily gathering bite sized morsels from a discarded orange coloured waffle icecream cone. The colony was inside/behind a concrete or brick block wall joined with cement mortar holding up a sandy bank.
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This second colony behaves a little differently from 1038228. They move very rapidly, and every so often bend double and mark objects? with their abdomen. They also appear to have fewer serrations on their jaw, and a lot have a lighter coloured area where the abdomen joins the next body segment.
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This second colony behaves a little differently from 1038228. They move very rapidly, and every so often bend double and mark objects? with their abdomen. They also appear to have fewer serrations on their jaw, and a lot have a lighter coloured area where the abdomen joins the next body segment.
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This second colony behaves a little differently from 1038228. They move very rapidly, and every so often bend double and mark objects? with their abdomen. They also appear to have fewer serrations on their jaw, and a lot have a lighter coloured area where the abdomen joins the next body segment.
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This second colony behaves a little differently from 1038228. They move very rapidly, and every so often bend double and mark objects? with their abdomen. They also appear to have fewer serrations on their jaw, and a lot have a lighter coloured area where the abdomen joins the next body segment.
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This second colony behaves a little differently from 1038228. They move very rapidly, and every so often bend double and mark objects? with their abdomen. They also appear to have fewer serrations on their jaw, and a lot have a lighter coloured area where the abdomen joins the next body segment.
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Common small ant species, carrying various insects etc back to nest in clay bank.