#Ants Nest

[redrcs]

Where the Monsters hide

Tree stump and ants nest

[decoartspacefinds]

Excited to share the latest addition to my #etsy shop: Ant farm , Horizontal formicarium, Formicarium with built-in arena, Ants house, vertical Formicaria, ants colony farm for ants,

[onenicebugperday]

Not the best photo but I had to share this dude with the silliest paddles for antennae:

Incredible.

Platyrhopalopsis sp., Paussinae (ant nest beetles)

Photographed in Thailand by ian_dugdale

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: insect

[nemfrog]

"Compound nest of (two ant species) in peat covering a boulder and overgrown with moss." Foibles of Insects and Men. 1928.

Internet Archive

[rubydart]

I had a big need for a fandom butterfly/moth display. Updated with an ID: Art drawn to look like a Fictional Moth/Butterfly display case based on 4 characters from The Magnus Archives on a 8.5x11" print. Big bug center top is labeled as "J. Sims": big green Luna Moth with multiple prominent eyes a bit like an Emperor Moth's markings, and holes in the wings that mimic the holes in a cassette tape. There's an eye on the mid of its body. The markings are more fantastical than the other bugs.

Labeled "M. Blackwood": Silver Clouded moth, smaller, to the right of J. Sims, with a cloudy looking pattern in greys on the wings, and two small dots.

Labeled "N. Sasha": Center-left. A blue butterfly but with markings that look like eyes and possibly claws extending across the top pair of wings. The wings are lined with black and white markings that resemble piano-keys. The lower pair of wings have golden markings that is supposed to resemble calliope pipes.

Labeled "Tim": Takes up the lower right side. A Mourning Cloak butterfly but with orange markings inside the wings that resemble flames. Mainly red wings lined with black then yellow edges, with blue spots across the black.

They are on a board with a spider web stretched across underneath them. The black tape of a cassette tape ribbons around the board in loose loops.

[creatureimages]

the most wonderfully calm and polite allothereua maculata i have ever met. usually they're incredibly scrambly and run around in an understandable panic but this guy was chilling in a crevice in some fallen bark. wonderful.

[missedmilemarkers]

[arthropod-diagnosis]

Name: Cheri

Skill: Crossover Episode

Quote: "wait why am i real now??? aaaa im getting sensory overload.."

(Image by Bernard DUPONT on Flickr)

[jenfoundabug]

Ant pupae in a nest I had to disturb last year during trail cleanup. Lucky for them, the adults were hard at work relocating them to safety.

Complex Formica fusca, Northeastern Pennsylvania, US

[decoartspacefinds]

Excited to share the latest addition to my #etsy shop: Formicarium Farm A Miniature Ecosystem for Ant Enthusiasts, Formicarium Farm Build Your Own Ant Colony Observation Station, Ants Farm  

[redrcs]

Where the monsters hide.

White Ant nest, Pinnarendi Cattle Station.

On my travels

[r4c3rr]

incorrect quotes part 2

Finley: Wow, you’ve pissed off a lot of people.

Briony: Well, that’s what happens when you live out loud.

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Alistair: Could you be anymore annoying?

Marianne: Yes.

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Alistair: So..hypothetically… how does one make a date more.. interesting? i want to take Gavin out for one. Hypothetically, of course.

Isobel: Um, sometimes acting sorta mysterious can be intriguing??

Alistair: Got it, thanks.

later......

Gavin: So, where are we going?

Alistair: None of your damn business.

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Reid: Are you sure this is safe?

Isobel: I never said that.

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Finley: On a scale of 1 to 10, how much am I going to hate this little plan of yours?

Briony: About an 85.

FInley: Oh, good.

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Alistair: Marianne, I sense hostility.

Marianne: Good, because I hate you.

[mebis-reblogs]

Iterator superstructures are like honeycombs to me

Frames layered in an array, mounted over/inside a layer frame with legs

Idk when I'll have a chance to draw this so writing it out instead

[rowanthestrange]

7241 was the code right? Is that anything except the airdate of the Sea Devils finale?

[futurebird]

Enrichment for my ants.

I’ve filled an extra wide tube with wet sand and connected it to my Dorymyrmex bureni colony’s outworld. This is to simulate the sandy soil where they dig deep nests in the wild. I hope they will start digging— if they do I’ll connect a little nest on the other end so they can move in. The tube is vertical and three feet long. I will update if they make progress.

This is the bookshelf where they live. The tube runs down the shelf giving them a place to dig a very deep nest if they want to.

UPDATE: (10 min later) The first ant has discovered the sand tube! They always find anything new so quickly. She’s on her way back now to tell her sisters what she has found.

Watching them run down the long tube it’s hard not to think they seem excited. They always move with so much haste!

UPDATE II: Now there are five of them. Still deciding what to do. More and more ants make the long trek down the tube to check out the sand layer.

Ants don't give each other orders or commands. Every ants takes in the information and options based on the actions of her sisters and decides what she wants to do.

But they act together so well. Like they have a discord where they are discussing and planning everything. The trek to the sand tube is long. Longer than their whole outworld. They found the new region in mins. They are planning how to use it best even now.

I love ants so much!