Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Ants' eggs
Ants are very busy these days. Here is a mass of eggs laid in a sheltered spot in some grass. I disturbed it when moving things in preparation for mowing last Tuesday.
The picture is fairly clear but a video clip shows how active the little critters are, carrying their precious eggs off to some new place of safety. I'll show it perhaps when I've learned how to do it!
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Permalink Reply by Stephen Middleton on
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I don't think that these are eggs (too large - eggs are 1mm long or less), but the larvae or pupae of ants.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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How odd that this batch of eggs/larvae/pupae should be in such an accessible place. I’d have thought they’d be underground.
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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on
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With advice from Hugh, I finally managed to share this burst of ant activity. They are rushing around carrying their precious burdens to safety after I disturbed them. Stephen and Einstein are quite right to point out that these egg-shaped objects are not eggs but pupae although when I was a lad these things were dried and sold in pet shops as ants' eggs to feed gold fish.
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