#myrmecia

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Edit: weird, this was meant to be a post in the tumblr bugs community, not a post to my blog. It's fine, but strange.

I love bugggssss

A few of my pics. Cabbage white butterfly. Maratus speciosus, the coastal peacock spider. Myrmecia sp. bullant.

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#3452 - Myrmecia rugosa - Rough Bull-ant

Fairly common in Marri-Jarrah woodlands of the SW. I'm a bit uncertain whether it's found in other states or not.

Dan Shepherd Reserve, Baldivis, Perth

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Giant Bulldog Ant

Myrmecia brevinoda

24/03/23 - NSW, Dapto

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@lishd​ submitted: Here's a polite grey house spider (I think?) that I met shortly after arriving to New Zealand. Specifically, I found him on my neck. Hence the politeness. :)

And the bulldog ant I found in Australia. He was almost an inch long and used his giant mandibles to steal my heart. ^_^

Yes sure looks like a grey house spider! Or one of the house spiders in the genus Badumna, at any rate. THAT ANT THO. They have stolen my heart with their enormous mandibles too. I am mentally giving them a little smooch...

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Deer in the headlights?

Myrmecia sp. ants are very mobile and aware of me, so hard to photograph, but a torch seems to keep their attention.

#arthropology #myrmecia #ant #macro #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #bullant #australianwildlife #westernaustralia

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I saw one of these lovely ladies at school today

(pic from Ant Keeping Depot)

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Myrmecia forficata queen that I found, her head was partially crushed

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#2044 - Myrmecia gulosa-species group

Photo by Patrick Wake.

Unfortunately I can't narrow it down past the gulosa complex, which includes some 42 species. If it's anything like the true M. gulosa and for that matter other Bull-ants, then they have excellent vision, powerful jaws and stings, and feed their sisters unfertilised eggs rather than regurgitate a meal.