Some 1680 x 1050 decoration to un-debug your desktop (click to enlarge):
Phidippus – jumping spider
Scaphinotus petersi
Gigantiops desctructor
Paraponera clavata - bullet ant
Atta cephalotes – leafcutter ants
Eciton hamatum - army ants
Apis mellifera - honey bee
Ectatomma tuberculatum
Mosquito
Bed bug – Cimex lectularius
Belostoma – giant water bug
Eciton rapax – army ant
Apioscelis - jumping stick
Eciton burchellii – army ants
Calosoma scrutator – fiery searcher beetle
Monomorium minimum
Acromyrmex - leafcutter ant
Robber fly (Asilidae)
Honey bees – Apis mellifera
Cephalotes varians - turtle ant
Bombus – bumble bee
Polyrhachis – spiny ant
Gibbifer californicus – pleasing fungus beetle
Dinoponera australis
Harpegnathos saltator - jumping ant
Pseudomyrmex spinicola – acacia ants
A personal blog by Illinois-based biologist and photographer Alex Wild.
Cool. I think that the white background photographs make the best desktop backgrounds.
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Awesome! Thanks Alex!
the link to the last image is the same as image16
Thanks for pointing that out, P. Should be fixed now.
now it’s all perfect!
What the heck is that stick-like one (#11)? Do you have a species name for it? Cartooniest lookin’ real life critter I’ve seen in ages.
These are all gorgeous shots, btw, and you are wonderful for sharing them, but surely that goes without saying.
It’s a grasshopper that was here a little while ago:
http://myrmecos.net/2011/02/01/answer-to-the-monday-night-mystery-25/
Thank you! I haven’t been reading that long, I hadn’t seen it the first time around.
Too…many…options!
Use a desktop wallpaper randomizer.
The Cephalotes pic is cute!
I’ve had C. scrutator as my desktop for a while now *swoon*
How about some praying mantids?
I’m sorry but i’m not a entomologist, so i’m doing a very silly question:
what is the specie of the #15 photo.
I think this photo is awesome and i want to modify and adapt for my persona of Firefox!
#6 photo of the bee coming in to land is a beauty.
Yeah, that might be my favorite one of this whole lot, too.
Fantastic! I’m struggling to decide which to use, though. Might just have to put them all on rotation for a couple of weeks before I settle on one!
Windows 7 is really cool in that you can have your background changed every so often automatically too
So ALL your backgrounds are mine!
I’m on a mac and someone else had to tell me that can be done. The shame.
I’m on a mac as well, and now have a reason to use the feature for the first time in years. Nice shots, Mr. Wild!
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I’m fairly sure I dated that walking stick in high school.
Perfect! Time to sneak these onto every unguarded computer in ANIC.
Fantastic pics! Thanks for sharing. I’m one on each of my computers.
I really love your site, the wallpaper is great!
Bombus – bumble bee
I really like this pic and it’s going to be my desktop wallpaper right now.
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Awesome photography ! The huge zoom-in on each ant forces you to look at it as an individual living creature and not as a part of a huge colony. Looking at those amazing creatures on my desktop makes me love them more every day.
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I found spider-ant.
I found a bug at the store that l work. Can’t seem to find a picture anywhere on the internet. Could some one please help figer what it might be.