ant attack

Although it is heavily croped, it's a great result. I have tried to get decent images of ants and they are very tricky customers as they move so fast.

Regards
David

Thanks David. Yes they are tricky customers! This one must have been salivating over its prey! I also used flash
Andy

A difficult downhill

Excellent shot - I know how hard these are to capture, very well controlled flash, they are so 'reflective' and nice detail, you can even see it's dangly mouth parts.

Well done.

My compliments on a great shot of such a small and fast object as an ant.

One ant point though; I think this ant is not attacking the aphid but farming it. Ants "milk" aphids to drink the sap they have extracted from the plant. You can clearly see the aphid's "back end" from which the honeydew emerges.
So actually the ant is protecting the aphid from other predators for its own resources.

Cheers,
Mike

Thank you for your comments!

Mike thanks for the info. I was wondering why none of the aphids were actually being killed off! The ants had plenty of opportunity to do that.
Andy

Nice sharp capture, fine details. This is a well taken macro shot.

Thank you Gabor