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On a hike recently we came across some butterflies puddling. When I stopped to get a few shots… Yes, that is my shoe. Notice my hot pink socks? Notice too, that he has his proboscis out. Maybe those shoes are getting a bit old. Why butterflies on an ant blog? Blue butterflies like this one have a special relationship with [...] Lately I have been wishing I had more time to work with ants (or play). Until then, here’s a few photos from two weeks ago. See the shiny insect hanging out in the entrance of the harvester ant mound?
This is a bigger silverfish (order Thysanura) than the ones I found previously with fire ants.
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 [...] |
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