C.Rayz's photos with the keyword: ant

BAS Field Meeting at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, where we were in search of some of the more rare spiders recorded. Found this guy dragging what I thought was a wasp or sawfly across the shingle, but looking at it, it appears more like a large ant.

Scale insect on my currant bush.

There are loads of these on my Currant bush, I'm not sure what to do, the bush doesn't seem to be affected by them as of yet.

The ants and I seem to be having a bit of troubles, they seem to think the scale and aphid insects are theirs, they don't relaize that they are mine too...lol

I'm not sure what is exactly going on here, but Ants and many other invertabrates have special relations. This could be a caterpillar of some of the UK butterflies. I'm going to try to get ahold of someone that can help me figure it out. This wasnt the only caterpillar being moved along the cliff edges amonst the thrift, probably being taken back to the colony for night, then will be brought back to the food source for the day. The ants harvest honeydew from them. You can see the Ant has a careful hold on the caterpillar in its meaty parts, he was carefully carrying it along, the caterpillar seems a bit curled as they do as a defence when being handled and has a 'poo' so has been eating and seems to me alive and well.

Two colonies? Just can't decide who will lead? I have no idea, you decide.

Yet another I'd like an ID on, very small ant, maybe one of the wall variety.