Ants – Eskildoodle Photos and Feelings

Bug Eyed

As I set up the solar telescope to do a sunspot count, I saw what looked like two eyes on the driveway looking back at me. Could the ants have constructed their own earthen eyes to watch for danger? Probably not, but they have little to fear from me anyway. I use glass lenses forContinue reading “Bug Eyed”

Oodles of Doodles

Steep-walled pits shadowed in the lowering sunlight are the lairs of antlion larvae which are often referred to as doodlebugs. The larvae wait patiently, I guess, for small insects, mostly ants, to tumble into the pit to be captured and consumed as food. It may take months for the doodlebugs to catch enough food toContinue reading “Oodles of Doodles”