JungleDragon is a nature and wildlife community for photographers, travellers and anyone who loves nature. We're genuine, free, ad-free and beautiful.

Join

The builders These ants (i&#039;m not that much into Myrmecology so not sure what the hell it is, am assuming an ant???) start their homes here and there amongst the grass at work. This is one of my few ventures into the world of Macro. not having a macro lens, i reversed my plastic-fantastic 50mm f/1.8. <br /> <br /> As for the ID... i have no idea... just to give you an indication, there are about 95 different species of ants at our sister institute near by, so i have no idea how many on ours (larger and part of the agricultural school campus) <a href="http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/thresi/antsOfIISc/" rel="nofollow">http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/thresi/antsOfIISc/</a> GKVK,Geotagged,India,NCBS,ants,bangalore,karnataka,macro Click/tap to enlarge

The builders

These ants (i'm not that much into Myrmecology so not sure what the hell it is, am assuming an ant???) start their homes here and there amongst the grass at work. This is one of my few ventures into the world of Macro. not having a macro lens, i reversed my plastic-fantastic 50mm f/1.8.

As for the ID... i have no idea... just to give you an indication, there are about 95 different species of ants at our sister institute near by, so i have no idea how many on ours (larger and part of the agricultural school campus) http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/thresi/antsOfIISc/

    comments (2)

  1. View Claire Hamilton's profile
    Claire Hamilton
    Lion
    View Lion class
    Hmm, yup a tricky one. Could be some kind of termite? But personally I think 'Ant' is just fine!! Posted 10 years ago
    1. View morpheme's profile
      morpheme
      Lion
      View Lion class
      I think termites don't have a "waist", so those are probably ants. If anyone wants a stab at id'ing them here's a good web site http://www.antweb.org/taxonomicPage.do?rank=genus&project=indiaants&images=true
      would be a hard puzzle to solve though       Posted 10 years ago, modified 10 years ago

Sign in or Join in order to comment.

No species identified

The species on this photo is not identified yet. When signed in, you can identify species on photos that you uploaded. If you have earned the social image editing capability, you can also identify species on photos uploaded by others.

View JohnR's profile

By JohnR

All rights reserved
Uploaded Jan 29, 2015. Captured in Vittal Mallya Road, KG Halli, Shanthala Nagar, Sampangi Rama Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560001, India.
country flag of India Explore India 5,200 1,370 0