{"id":1370,"date":"2009-04-20T00:04:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T23:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1370"},"modified":"2013-11-14T21:45:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:45:38","slug":"ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/ants\/","title":{"rendered":"Ants!"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I was out in the garden today, enjoying the sunshine and doing a small amount of tidying&#8230; which caused me to disrupt a small colony of ants. Small as they are, they&#39;re fascinating social creatures. The small group I uncovered quickly got to work rescuing their larvae and transporting them to safe cover. I had time to set up the camera with a ring flash to help freeze some of the activity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ant_1904090206.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ant_1904090206.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"ants and larvae\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Ants and larvae<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ant_1904090205.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ant_1904090205.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"ants and larvae\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">&quot;I need some help with this one!&quot;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ant_1904090207.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ant_1904090207.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"ants and larvae\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Many hands make light work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the on-going (and seemingly hopeless) quest to photograph the foxes, I&#39;m still struggling. The trail cam is doing its job providing short clips (and periodically eating data cards). Now I&#39;ve again got a PC that is working, I&#39;ll sort out a few clips and post a proper update soon. <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: ants photographed with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens and EM-140 DG ring flash.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[991],"tags":[240,237],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insects-2","tag-ants","tag-macro","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}