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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 [...] Ant larvae are generally not a hot topic. Most people don’t see them because they are hidden within the ant nest. When noticed, the young ants seem to be legless grubs passively laying around and waiting to be tended by the adult worker ants. Or are they? Let’s take a closer look at ant larvae.
When my very good friend Deb Sparrow sent me this photograph of a harvester ant collecting a piece of a blue corn chip that had fallen from her lunch, I immediately took it at face value. A harvester ant carrying a corn chip seems like an obvious combination. After some research, however, I am beginning [...] |
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