Close-up of an ant’s face

[Kaladin]

everyone is worried about aliens and nuclear war and viruses but these fucking mini-orcs are building huge colonies everywhere all over the world

A Nikon photo competition shows us what an ant's face looks like up close, and it's straight out of a horror movie

Eugenijus Kavaliauskas clinched an "Image of Distinction" prize at the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition for his submission.

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That's not one of Tolkien's orcs straight out of Middle Earth — it's just what ants look like when you get up close and personal with them.

The snapshot of an ant's face, magnified five times under a microscope, was submitted to the 2022 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition by Lithuanian wildlife photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas. The competition celebrates the art of microscope photography, which allows people to capture details the human eye cannot see.

 

[Jim14510]

The collest ones are the ones in South America that use some kind of beetle as slaves. They make them carry leaves and shit to their nest. Beat their asses if they don't work hard enough.

 

[Jim14510]

The collest ones are the ones in South America that use some kind of beetle as slaves. They make them carry leaves and shit to their nest. Beat their asses if they don't work hard enough.

Actually it's other ants.

Science | AAAS

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[Kaladin]

Actually it's other ants.

Science | AAAS

www.science.org

This just gets worse and worse

now they’re going to enslave us

 

[BIGSTICK67]

Actually it's other ants.

Science | AAAS

www.science.org

You know. Maybe we really are in a simulation.

Somebody get that Art Bell thread revved up again.

 

[ThomOsborneMD]

 

[HuskerGarrett]

Kill it

 

[11husker23]

everyone is worried about aliens and nuclear war and viruses but these fucking mini-orcs are building huge colonies everywhere all over the world

A Nikon photo competition shows us what an ant's face looks like up close, and it's straight out of a horror movie

Eugenijus Kavaliauskas clinched an "Image of Distinction" prize at the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition for his submission.

www.google.com

 

[Black Dean]

That would have been better if that’s what they used in Honey, I shrunk the kids

 

[Skerz4Life50]

Ants are pretty fascinating.

"Our research published today provides an approximate answer. We conservatively estimate our planet harbours about 20 quadrillion ants. That’s 20 thousand million millions, or in numerical form, 20,000,000,000,000,000 (20 with 15 zeroes).

We further estimate the world’s ants collectively constitute about 12 million tonnes of dry carbon. This exceeds the mass of all the world’s wild birds and wild mammals combined. It’s also equal to about one-fifth of the total weight of humans."

How many ants are there on the planet? Their combined weight will surprise you

Ants’ high degree of social organisation has enabled them to colonise nearly all ecosystems and regions around the globe

www.livemint.com

 

[Sous Chef]

This just gets worse and worse

now they’re going to enslave us

They most certainly would if they could

 

[jw3]

fuck ants