So I keep forgetting to put in photographers notes, and when you add photographer's notes after the challenge ends, most often they're missing.
So if you have something exciting you forgot to tell us, please use this thread to tell us the backstory/reason/anything intersting about your photo!
Bear recommended that I put this out in a thread, so I'm starting with this one.
Science entry:
So my worry was that people wouldn't think of this as science. But I had to enter it anyway. I was completely fascinated by these ants, had to do a bit or research to understand what I was seeing. And wanted to share it.
My next door neighbor was going to be dropping of a check. She texted me that her son was supposed to put it in our mailbox, but that there was tons of ants and something gross, and he was too freaked out to leave it in there. So the check was under the front mat.
Of course I ignored the check under the front mat, grabbed my camera and went out to the mailbox.
Indeed, there was a massive, writhing pile of ants. I figured something had died and the ants were eating it?
I was thinking "eeeewwwww" and "don't crawl on me!" the whole time. Because I was using my macro lens, and had to rest it on the edge of the mailbox where they were all crawling.
It wasn't something dead. The ants had just decided to nest in the mailbox. And they started scurrying around moving all the eggs/larvae down the screw holes in the bottom of the mailbox.
The larvae were just big white blobs at that point.
Within about 10 minutes, they had moved all the white blobs and all ants out of the mailbox. And it was completely bare.
5 days later, after a rain and no mail, they were back. At this point the larvae had turned into zombie-like ant creatures that had to be carried out.
So where or not you see the science in the shot. I had about a 1/2 hour-45 minutes of reading up on ant biology. :)
 
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