#leafcutter ant

[onenicebugperday]

Ant cockroach, Attaphila fungicola, Blattellidae

Ant cockroaches live in the nests of leaf-cutter ants and disperse phoretically by hitching rides on virgin queen ants (photo 1) or by riding on leaves carried by ants returning to a nest. They have been suggested to feed on the fungus their host ants farm and are not attacked by host workers because they blend into the colony by mimicking the odor of their hosts ants. Adults measure only about 3mm in length.

Photo 1 by leg9 and 2-4 by myrmexflora

#animals #curators on tumblr #insects #bugs #cockroach #roach #ant cockroach #ant #queen ant #leafcutter ant #dead bugs #RIP to that queen #one nice bug

[thisismyideaofhumor]

Sometimes I remember that one of the JumpStart video games have a section where you play as a leafcutter ant, and one of the minigames involved running away from a parasitic fly that was trying to lay eggs in you

#jumpstart #video game #leafcutter ant #parasite #ants #insect #bug #entomology #this never struck me as odd as a kid. probably bc i knew i wasnt an ant so i didnt have to worry #yes the screenshot is from a playthrough i found on youtube #all the songs in this game were so catchy

[feather-bone]

[ID: an illustration of an orange ant facing to the right holding a section of green leaf in its mandibles. It is on a painterly blue, green, and yellow background with patches of moss and lichen. End.]

Leafcutter ant! They cultivate a particular species of fungus by feeding it plant material and tending it like a little fungus garden. Adult ants eat the sap of leaves, but their larvae are fed the cultivated fungi. Ant farmers!

Timelapse below. :-)

#ants #bugs #invertebrates #leafcutter ant #ant #insects #daily creature #animals

[vintagewildlife]

Leafcutter ant By: Michael Fogden From: Wild, Wild World of Animals: Insects & Spiders 1977

#leafcutter ant #ant #hymenopteran #insect #arthropod #invertebrate #1977 #1970s #Michael Fogden #Wild Wild World of Animals

[jmmallory]

Not the sharpest ant in the hill.

#Cú Cuthach #leafcutter ant #leafcutter ants #Kenny doesn't get it #cartoon #insect cartoon #ant cartoon

[cnestus]

🧡 Acromyrmex versicolor 🧡

#hymenotpera #formicidae #leafcutter ant

[frootertooter]

Drew a leafcutter ant today

Also here's an hour long video of leafcutter ants walking across a log bc I've been trying to find a good one for the longest time, and finally found one yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mRnCsRXwv8

#leafcutter ant #ant #entomology #insects #frootertooter art

[antlungz]

some discord emotes i made for myself :) i really liked how they turned out and wanted to share <3

#artist on tumblr #art #digital art #artist sona #ant #leafcutter ant #custom emote #discord emote #custom emoji #discord emoji #emote #emoji #my art #original art #antlungz

[psythril]

leafcutter

#my art #leafcutter ant #bugs #red #look at this sad ant

[onenicebugperday]

@yellowhoothoot submitted: my ant tattoo and the type of ants it's based on! they're fungus farming leafcutter ants endemic to cuba called bibijaguas (Atta insularis) and i got to see them at a community farm!

Beautiful tattoo and beautiful ants! I love the little spines on their backs :)

#animals #insects #bugs #submission #ant #ants #leafcutter ant #bug art #tattoo #ant art

[pleistocene-pride]

Atta cephalotes is a species of leafcutter ant in the tribe Attini (the fungus-growing ants) which is widely distributed throughout North, Central, and South America from as far north as Mexico to as far south as Bolivia. Here they tend to inhabit tropical rainforests, cloud forests, and mixed mosaics spending the bulk of there time in the understory and on the forest. Although leafcutter ants are famous for there cutting and gathering of leaves as well as other plant material such as seeds, flowers, vines, fruit and even occasionally fecal matter and dead invertebrates, they actually don’t eat these substances regularly, instead they use this organic matter to nourish and cultivate expansive fungi farms which provide the majority of the colonies nutrition. These are colonial insects with complex division of labor. A single long-lived queen (up to 20 years) and millions of sterile workers live together in an enormous underground nest which can be up to 100 square meters. Workers cut and carry leaf fragments, clean and mulch leaves, tend symbiotic fungus gardens, care for queen and many larvae/pupae, and defend the nest, together with soldiers. Newly hatched workers perform tasks inside the nest (some outside, e.g., trail clearing), with older workers mainly active outside the nest. Leafcutter ants are eaten by a wide variety of predators including many birds, bats, frogs, toads, lizards, ground mammals, and invertebrates including other ants such as army and fire ants.

#atta cephalotes #leafcutter ant #leaf #cut #cutter #ant #rainforest #pleistocene #pleistocene pride

[vintagewildlife]

Leafcutter ant fungus garden By: Dr. Neal A. Weber From: Natural History Magazine 1962

#leafcutter ant #ant #hymenopteran #insect #arthropod #invertebrate #1962 #1960s #Neal A. Weber #Natural History Magazine

[thegisgaming]

Bug guys

If you have any suggestions for what bug I should whatever-this-is-ify next, lemme know !!!

#entomology #hercules beetle #stag beetle #ironcross blister beetle #leafcutter ant #funny guys #RAAAAHHHHHH🦅🦅🦅🦅🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

[paulpingminho]

#leafcutter ant #insect #rope #ants on a rope #London Zoo #London #England

[idontthinkimokaymentally]

Hello there Leafcutter Ant/Hakiriari fans.

#leafcutter ant #hakiriari #kiriwa kurogane #arachnid

[amnhnyc]

Happy Halloween! 🎃 🐜 See these ants at work in the Solomon Family Insectarium in the Museum’s Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation.

#science #amnh #museum #nature #natural history #ants #entomology #halloween #leafcutter ants #pumpkin