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  Florida harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex badius, carrying a seed back to their nest. Archbold Biological Station, Florida. #Ants #Insects #Pogonomyrmex

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  Interesting paper. Commercially available native seed mixes for pollinators are baised towards summer blooming species, leaving the important spring flowers under-represented. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rec.14352

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  Found a midge this morning, Goeldichironomus carus, that appears to mimic a jumping spider. #Insects #Chironomidae

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  RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hewxr27p6lkudlzb3p4gkie3/post/3mxrylvczx22f Europe needs to close their US military bases as soon as possible, because they are no longer friendly and present a significant security risk to the continent.

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  Petition to rename the aphids tended by ants for honeydew as "sugar babies" #nature #ants

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  Treat's collared ant, Aphaenogaster treatae. Sand Ridge state forest, Illinois. This large, attractive sand-specialist ant is common in eastern North America wherever the soil type fits. It can be recognized by the enlarged lobe at the base of the antennae. #Ants #Insects #Aphaenogaster

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  The good guys winning in Serbia and Brazil has me in a great mood.

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  An immature treehopper at Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas. All spikes, all the time. #Membracidae #Insects #Nature

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  Brewer ants, Cyphomyrmex, are small relatives of the more famous leafcutter ants that cultivate their fungus as a yeast (the little golden globules), rather than as hyphae. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas. #Ants #Insects #Cyphomyrmex #Nature

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  I love how the reddit ants forum is half homeowners asking for the best ways to kill ants, and half antkeepers asking for the best ways to keep them alive.

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  This may be the prettiest ant I've seen in ages. Diacamma viridipurpureum, photographed in Germany from a captive colony collected in the Philippines. This species does not have distinct queens; egg-laying is done by mated workers. #Diacamma #Ants #Insects

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  Imagine your species name being a mistake. This is the Cuban Spiny Ant, Polyrhachis cubaensis. It lives in South Africa, because of a labelling error. Cuba does not have any Polyrhachis ants. #Ants #Insects #Polyrhachis

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  I think it's likely that the Trump regime, if not outright in charge of it, at least approved of the staged migrant "invasion" of Ceuta to use as a weapon against the EU. The EU desperately needs to ban U.S. tech companies, as they are a major weapon of hybrid warfare being deployed against them.

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  iNaturalist has its ups and downs. But it really excels at tracking the spread of large, easy to identify invasive species. Fascinating to watch the Joro spider spread out from individual propagules: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?subview=map&taxon_id=904334

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  Southern fire ants, Solenopsis xyloni, carrying a pebble from an excavation project deeper in the nest. West Texas. I often think of this species as a western desert ant, but it used to be found coast to coast and was extirpated in the east by the red imported fire ants. #Ants #Solenopsis #FireAnts #insects

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  Acorn ants, Temnothorax curvispinosus, in an old acorn in Illinois. They need an acorn in a particular stage of decay, usually a year old and already hollowed out. If you're looking for acorn ants, you won't find them in the fresh ones. #ants #insects #temnothorax

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  This is Psalidomyrmex. It is an African ant that hunts earthworms. Which, fair enough, is a habit that probably merits weird mandibles. But I just learned they don't need to have slicing mandibles, just grabby ones, because earthworms drop their tails when attacked, so the ants just haul them off like they were harvesting fruit. #Ants #Insects #Biology #Psalidomyrmex

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  Just some goldenrod. #bloomscrolling #spiders #thomisidae #goldenrod

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  A gallery of mosquitos, since we're now in the season. #Insects #Mosquitoes #Photography https://www.alexanderwild.com/Insects/Mosquitoes

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  Just saw Gemini citing Grokipedia as a source for a piece of incorrect information. Seems like a sign of where AI is these days.

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  Found these yellow sneaking ants, Cardiocondyla wroughtonii, in one of UT Austin's greenhouses. A worldwide tramp ant, but not one we normally see in central Texas. #Ants #Insects #Cardiocondyla

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  An Azteca ant inside her brood nest in a hollow Cecropia tree stem. What she is holding is not an egg or a larva (those are the lumpy things with the interior dark patch) but a food body produced by the tree specifically to feed the ants, as they protect the tree from caterpillars. Colombia. #Ants #Azteca #Ecology #Evolution #Cecropia #Insects

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  Happy Mother’s Day everyone, and best of luck keeping all your little ones together. #Insects #Centipedes

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  I've never met David Attenborough. But I have worked with some of his camera crews, and they are full of stories about what a good dude he is. Like, he'll jump up to do the dishes at a field station.

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  A Texas leafcutter ant, Atta texana, hauls spring Prunus buds along a tree branch on her way back to the nest. #Ants #Insects #Atta #nature #leafcutterants

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  A gallery of army ants. #Ants #Photography #Photography https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Making-a-Living/Army-Ants

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  Always a treat to see Comanche harvester ants. These are found only in the sandiest habitats in Texas and Oklahoma. #Ants #Insects #Pogonomyrmex

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  Spider or puppy? We report, you decide. #Spiders #Nature

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  Zoom in to see the terrifyingly sharp teeth on the jaws of this 2mm long Strumigenys ant. Found a little nest of these yesterday under a rock in central Austin. #Ants #Insects #Strumigenys