I've moved from Mastodon.Social to Sauropods.Win; in celebration here's a Muscleman Tree Ant (Podomyrma gratiosa), looking a little worse for the wear—she's missing a pair of legs!
This is Tulip, the median carpenter ant worker. Today she enjoyed some wet cat food. I can’t seem to find Pepper, the ant with the green spot, I think she might have cleaned the paint off (she was very dusty) — stay tuned for more important Tulip updates. #tulip#ant#namedAnts
Tulip is about two years old. It's been nearly two years since I marked her. The queen of this colony is 4.
@futurebird@Gobabu I did not know worker ants could live two years. Are you writing a book? I hope so. I love your voice. It's not just naming the ants; you bring us right into their world.
@gay_ornithischians this looks really nice! I like how it just looks like an anthropomorphic ant because most ants are already female so you don't really need to "feminize" it. I guess that'd be my observation
@AmyIsCoolz thanks :)
i did briefly contemplate making the leg spikes into "high heels" but it looked awful and it would go against the "practical spirit" of the ants so i dropped the idea
Next time you think, "I can't make a difference, I am only one little person .."👇
This Tiny Ant Species Is Disrupting the Lives of African Lions
"..tiny and seemingly innocuous invasive ant species is changing tree cover in an East African wildlife area, making it harder for lions, the world’s most iconic predator, to hunt its preferred prey, zebra.
"... pulling on the ties that bind an African ecosystem together, determining who is eaten and where,”