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Dolichoderus sp.
It's all hands on deck! Why are these golden-tailed spiny ants all milling around their entrance? Another nest nearby showed the same behavior.
A bushland reserve of native schlerophyll forest. Antonio Reserve Melbourne.
http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_... often farming lerps and other hemipterans or lepidopterans for 'honeydew' http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/213... http://www.livescience.com/11288-ants-wo...
Spotted on Aug 30, 2013
Submitted on Aug 30, 2013
18 Comments
These have been identified as ( Dolichoderus sp.)
I will change the details
Thank you Ken Walker and Dr Rudy Kohout
http://www.bowerbird.org.au/observations...
Thank you LarryG and dotun55
This ants are undeniably special ;)
Great spotting!
Thanks Yoko.
Thanks Yasser.
Thanks Gilma.
Fantastic spotting, martinl. Great looking ants.
Love the close-ups Martin. It looks like they've dipped their abdomens in gold.
What a beautiful sight!
I've seen these attending lerps http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/213...
They are likely to be Polyrhachis ammon http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Golden-t...
Thanks for your comments Sergio, Aaron, namitha, Mark and Lauren.
It must be a bomb alert evacuation.....
Wonderful photos! Wonderful and scary.
That's some party !
That may explain it Sergio, it is early spring and the timing is right. I hadn't noticed this behavior before. There has been good rainfall and it did rain last night. I've also noticed termites with "queens -in -waiting" in this same park. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/377...
Spectacular!
Excellent spotting!!
By the way, these are great photos of wonderful ants.
Martin, isn't it time for the new queens to fly away to form new nests? That happens here when leafcutter ants's winged females (and males) are about to take off to mate.