Ants

[Solly Mack]

This swarm was all over (inside and out) one of the light poles found along the walking trails.

I got several bites while intruding on them.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Those are really interesting pics!

Are the ones with wings also ants? I've never seen any like those before.

You are a true artist! No ant bites will stop your craft!

Thanks for sharing these fascinating pics...

[Solly Mack]

3. Yes. New queens and some males. They'll mate and the male will die. The new queens will go to ground

and start a new colony and push out more ants for a lot of years. She'll lose her wings once she has gone to ground.

Thanks, CP!!

[handmade34]

2. as a lover of all things that

crawl... I love the photos

[Solly Mack]

4. Thanks, handmade

They were fascinating to watch...even with the biting.

[Callalily]

5. Interesting photos!

[Mira]

6. Great closeups / a treat to see and learn about.

I like them all with the second one best for the arrangement of the shapes, but in the first I love the full body smaller ones and the eye! It tells the whole story.

[Solly Mack]

7. Thanks, Mira.

Their colony has to be inside the light. They were vicious in their attack of me. lol

[Mira]

8. Once I watched in utter amazement

a large unending colony of ants marching in two columns in opposite directions, maybe 300 -400 feet or more, crossing paths, through a puddle. They traveled untiringly, carrying stuff the size of which would equal me carrying a single family home, then returned in the other column without the ballast. They were taking apart a tree, and I was told within a few hours that tree would be gone. They took the parts to their underground place that swelled the area when I found it.
I was scared.
This was in Costa Rica.