This beautiful lady is Solenopsis invicta. Measuring barely over 2 mm long, she is a member of an incredibly successful species.
Unfortunately, she is far outside her native range, and doing incredible damage to her local ecosystem.
It isn't her fault that she's a fire ant.
keep your circle small °
#sustainability #ants
Noticed a couple #ants today on my walk that seemed to be... fighting was my first thought, but is almost certainly wrong. Communicating, I would guess, though it looks to me like one of those slap-fights in cartoons.
@futurebird probably knows what they're up to.
The ants are feeling boxy in today's drawing.
It's a new month, so I've started a new post for my daily #inkyDays drawings.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/125704345 https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-April-2025-L3L51CTWHJ
A winged ant on a floating leaf. He was in the water until he washed up on the leaf's shore, Robinson Crusoe-like. Here he stands, drying himself in the sun.
Saw one in my backyard today.
https://mastodon.art/@jencmars/114248382633016749
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The winter ants were deploying alates this afternoon
Partly sunny with a chance of passing showers and flying #ants.
#PRwx #mastodonPR #PuertoRico
cc @futurebird
Exam in progress
Evolution, from speciation to conflict and cooperation bwn species
New element
Draw pictures in answers
Had students practice all semester
One drawing lesson per lecture
Also checking on Philip Ball's
#HowLifeWorks
@futurebird So tell me, she who knows, I've got some bugs coming up in the next section of my series of novellas. What's a good documentary on ant behaviour, possibly bees, for me to steal some cool bits for my alien bugs? My characters will be literally crawling into the nest, so I need a good primer. A lecture recorded at a university might also work.
The ants are asking "is the stupid over yet", in today's #inkyDays drawing. I also finished the piece I've been working on for the past few days.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/123418451 https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-March-2025-N4N51BCM70
Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanRights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #scribbles #drippings #splatters #graffiti #streetArt #cyTwombly #stencil #victory #symbol #meaning #seahorses #beLikeThePanda #banksy #civilDisobidience #ants #kangaroos
Three ants bridging the distance between two surfaces
Wait, ants started farming when the dinosaurs were still around?!
https://www.science.org/content/article/asteroid-impact-may-have-turned-ants-fungus-farmers-66-million-years-ago
#science #ants #phylogenetics
