My ants collection. Please correct me if you come across any ID mistakes :)
A bunch of
Polyrhachis armata - (ID credit: Stephane De Greef) 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,
Calomyrmex sp.
- ID credit: Dave General. For more cool, blue insect, click
here.
Bluish ant,
Calomyrmex sp. with larva - ID credit: Dave General
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 (
Polyrhachis sp.) and an aphid. ID credit: James Trager
Tetraponera sp. ant
Tetraponera sp. queen ant
Camponotus sp. ant glued to the leaf. Not sure what was going on.
Calomyrmex sp. ant - ID credit: Dave General
Calomyrmex sp. ant. - ID credit: Dave General
A dead
Dinomyrmex gigas ant being eaten by a zombie ant
Ophiocordyceps fungus
A dead
Dinomyrmex gigas ant being eaten by a zombie ant
Ophiocordyceps fungus
Dinomyrmex gigas ant under attack by
Phoridae flies.
Dinomyrmex 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 (Dolichoderinae, maybe
Tapinoma melanocephalum.- ID credit: James Trager) . More butterflies
here.
The same Branded Imperial with the same ant, closer.
Weaver ants with dead male
Dorylus sp ant. (ID credit: James Trager)
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.
Tetramorium sp. - ID credit: James Trager.
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 -
Tapinoma sessile - ID credit: James Trager
A tiger beetle with a dead ant's head on its antenna. More beetles of Malaysia
here.
Ants and butterfly mutualism
Male
Camponotus
Dolichoderus sp. ant
Polyrhachis sp. ant tending scale insects. Could be a
Dolichoderus sp - suggested by James Trager
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
.
