
Ant Vs. Finger
August 11, 2008 by myrmecos
Posted in Ants, Insect Links, Photography Links | Tagged entomology, Harpegnathos, Nature | 10 Comments
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I thought they’d be bigger.
Great photo!
They are pretty big ants.
I just have enormous fingers…
Oh, tension!
What happened?
Alex
Are they big as the Brown Bull ant from down under. Those brown bull ant are petty big buggers.
Harpegnathos are a bit smaller than bull ants, but bigger than a jack jumper. Their movements are a lot like jack jumpers.
[...] shot wasn’t too difficult. The ant was following my finger about menacingly, as seen here, so I only needed to lift my hand just above the viewing frame to get her to [...]
I think I will need to do a caption, doctoring, and poll of this.
Ant- please do!
Myrmecos: They’re up! Check it out — http://antfarm.yuku.com/topic/7342 … Please be sure to vote too. [grin]