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It’s late in the season for ant mating flights, but this little queen showed up just now at our porch light. In life she’s only half a centimeter long.
photo details:
Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens on a Canon EOS 7D
ISO 100, f/13, 1/250 sec
two remote strobes bounced off white paper
I think I caught a similar one this weekend in Princeton. She’s in a tube and she cut her wings yesterday. Hopefully she’ll lay some eggs soon 🙂
We had an explosion of them yesterday. Made me think of you. Still struggling with the new camera and don’t think I got any good shots. 🙁
Looks like a Brachymyrmex depilis.
Nice down to earth macro shot, I particulary like the effect of the translucent flagellomeres
These look so Lasius-like, but only half the size, and with fewer antennal segments, 9 rather than the 12 of Lasius. (I have a hunch this latter is what exploded in Buglady’s world, but let’s see what she says….)
And speaking of long, those wings really do just go on and on!
She is a princess. How beautiful. Pogonomyrmex comanche still hasn’t flown in north central Texas. We are getting a bit of rain just now (finally) but it is only enough to tease the ants…