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Birds going "Anting"

Started By Boog , Jul 12 2020 10:44 PM
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#1 Offline Boog - Posted July 12 2020 - 10:44 PM

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Some birds seek out ants too! Their version of anting is hardcore though, basically a formic acid shower.

 

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#2 Offline ponerinecat - Posted July 13 2020 - 8:40 AM

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Damn. You should look into the "myrmecophilous" antbirds if you're into this stuff, they follow army ant trails while avoiding the ants themselves, eating arthropods flushed out by the ant raids.


#3 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted July 13 2020 - 9:18 AM

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That's amazing! I especially like how the ants don't get eaten.  :lol:


"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#4 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted July 13 2020 - 3:56 PM

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Thanks for this very interesting info! Someone wrote an article in wikipedia too, it seems.

https://en.wikipedia...(bird_activity)


Formiculture Journals::

Veromessor pergandei, andrei; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis; also separate journal: Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola

Liometopum occidentale;  Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive)

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus and californicus (inactive)

Tetramorium sp.

Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis

 

Isopods: A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus

Spoods: Phidippus sp.

#5 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 13 2020 - 4:33 PM

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There’s a good chapter on this phenomenon in the Birder’s Bug Book. https://www.amazon.c...ing=UTF8&btkr=1
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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#6 Offline mannac - Posted July 15 2020 - 11:02 AM

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I witnessed an American Robin anting a couple weeks ago!
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#7 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 15 2020 - 12:23 PM

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Cool!


Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 

#8 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted July 17 2020 - 2:01 PM

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There’s a good chapter on this phenomenon in the Birder’s Bug Book. https://www.amazon.c...ing=UTF8&btkr=1

 

Okay gonna grab a copy lolol


Formiculture Journals::

Veromessor pergandei, andrei; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis; also separate journal: Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola

Liometopum occidentale;  Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive)

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus and californicus (inactive)

Tetramorium sp.

Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis

 

Isopods: A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus

Spoods: Phidippus sp.

#9 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 17 2020 - 2:04 PM

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All his books are fun to read. He’s got another good one called What Good are Bugs?
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#10 Offline AntsMaryland - Posted July 17 2020 - 2:23 PM

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And… some get "drunk" from their wonderful meals… https://www.devonliv...nt-day-4318599 


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Aphaenogaster cf. rudis 

Tetramorium immigrans 

Tapinoma sessile

Formica subsericea

Pheidole sp.

Camponotus nearcticus

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