What’s hot in ant fashion?

Jan 25th, 2011

by myrmecos.

Yellow is all the rage this season among Ecuador’s leafcutters:

Atta cephalotes

Note the must-have mini-ant accessory.

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photo details:
Canon EF100mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens on a Canon EOS 7D
ISO 200, 1/200 sec, f/14, diffuse remote flash
taken at the Jatun Sacha forest in Napo, Ecuador

Posted in: Ants, photography.
Tagged: Atta · Ecuador

5 Comments

1. Tweets that mention What’s hot in ant fashion? – MYRMECOS - Insect Photography - Insect Pictures -- Topsy.com says:

   January 25, 2011 at 6:04 pm

   [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Photo-Twitt and Kate Clancy, Alex Wild. Alex Wild said: What’s hot in ant fashion? http://j.mp/i1na9f [...]

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2. JasonC. says:

   January 25, 2011 at 7:38 pm

   Zhu Zhu Ants also come with raiding Zhu Zhu Phorids!

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3. ABM says:

   January 25, 2011 at 10:19 pm

   I need a minim accessory.

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4. James C. Trager says:

   January 26, 2011 at 9:59 am

   Gives me an idea for a hat design that could be a big seller from a booth at the next Ent. Soc. Amer. meeting! I rarely make it to the ESA, so someone industrious out there, feel free to steal my idea.

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   1. BioBob says:

      January 27, 2011 at 2:22 am

      wouldn’t that make them a fashionable cocklaphobiac kleptoparasite ?

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