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**CoiI8XIj** · 04-25-2012, 07:26 PM

Thanks for posting all the info and links, sensational. CS has also 'loaned' me an ant book which is fantastic. Thanks.

When I go out next I am keen to have another look. It could be that that they responded to my torch as a potential intruder and went into the behaviour witnessed but it doesn't quite feel right with my observations. We shall see.

Nowhere near as good as Nut's pics, but here's one I took of what I think is a Meranoplus worker on one of the ginger fronds at my place. They are small ants and my eyesight is so bad that I have to point the camera in the general direction and hope the autofocus is working!

Not at all, great pic! I have been thinking of getting a wider perspective also but with my current set-up it doesn't allow me enough distance. I missed a great shot of Myrmecia last time out, it went into a, what I thought, a defensive confrontation with my torch. Head down, gaster up with me shooting from a side angle. I would have loved to have gotten back a bit more and instead got a shot of a gasterless ant.

Thanks for posting a great little ant!

04-25-2012, 07:26 PM	#19
CoiI8XIj Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 388 Senior Member	Thanks for posting all the info and links, sensational. CS has also 'loaned' me an ant book which is fantastic. Thanks. When I go out next I am keen to have another look. It could be that that they responded to my torch as a potential intruder and went into the behaviour witnessed but it doesn't quite feel right with my observations. We shall see. Nowhere near as good as Nut's pics, but here's one I took of what I think is a Meranoplus worker on one of the ginger fronds at my place. They are small ants and my eyesight is so bad that I have to point the camera in the general direction and hope the autofocus is working! Not at all, great pic! I have been thinking of getting a wider perspective also but with my current set-up it doesn't allow me enough distance. I missed a great shot of Myrmecia last time out, it went into a, what I thought, a defensive confrontation with my torch. Head down, gaster up with me shooting from a side angle. I would have loved to have gotten back a bit more and instead got a shot of a gasterless ant. Thanks for posting a great little ant!
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