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After posting photographs of butterflies last week, I decided to take a deeper look into the relationships between ants and blue butterflies. There’s been a lot of new discoveries in this area over the last decade or so. Butterflies of the family Lycaenidae, commonly referred to as blues, hairstreaks and coppers, have been known to have [...] As promised, today we have some beetles. These tiny rove beetles were in the vicinity of the same native fire ant nests where I found the silverfish (from the previous post.) Rove beetles or staphylinid beetles (Staphylinidae) have short elytra that only cover a part of the abdomen. These held their abdomen curved up over their backs. A [...] Silverfish (Order Thysanura) are generally silver-dusted brown or gray insects with a tapering body resembling a sideways carrot with legs. They are known for their habit of infesting houses and eating wallpaper or bookbinding glue. What a surprise to find silverfish in an ant nest. The silverfish is the white insect in the center of the photo. [...] While looking up information on the hairy wood ants, Formica lugubris, I found out about some tiny ants called guest ants that also live in the wood ants’ towering mounds. The shining guest ant, Formicoxenus nitidulus, forms a small nest within the bigger nest. As you can see from the photo below, they are [...] |
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