An Ant's Life

An Ant's Life


Usually on Friday's I would be waiting for my church member to fetch me back to my church after my classes in college, cause it's mainly my only means of transportation back, if not... would be a problem traveling back on bus or by taxi holding so much bags.... -_-"

Well that time when carried my baggage to the college's cafeteria, church member was busy helping out another student's laptop problem... So I was bored and started walking around...

Walk walk walk... till i saw a bush~

"Hello Bush"

*SHAKE IT*

Then I saw some red ants there... ah man the spawn of devils... never liked these little monsters because when I was a kid used to lie down beside trees and these little ants who would just climb on you and bite you without a reason!!! EMO ants....

Anyway... this was what I saw them doing...
3 of them were carrying a praying mantis's arm back... meaning either they've found a dead body, or they've defeated a praying mantis... not surprising if they did though... their bite is annoying!!

So I followed their trail seeing where their nest would be so that I could stomp on it and save the lives of many others who do not want an irritating red ant to bite them... but then... it led me to this...
Oh my... this is just so... wow....??

Looks like the red ants took leaves, curled them together and made for themselves sort of like a tree house... and that was their nest!!!!

Really a wow thing...
While I was photographing this wonderful nest~ this ant was just there glaring at me... like giving a

"BEH MEH!?!?!"

Kinda look.... scary... looks like it was gonna jump on me and bite me anytime soon... you try la... I squish you!! But... how could he glare at me?? I thought ants were blind...???
You can see ants going out of the nest...

"Time to Work!!"
And ants going back in...

"WHEW!!"

After a hard day's work =)
Then I noticed a little hole by the side of the leaf... looks like a hole in their rooftop~ then came a red ant and it started to fix it... by using some weird... weird weird tape-look-alike thingy and dragging it to stick the leaves together... hmmm....

Interesting wei...
Of course it would be too much for one ant to handle in fixing such a big leaf alone... and suddenly came a little red ant, looks like a baby red ant...?? And they started helping each other... pulling together... wow....
And the other ant on top of the nest was looking around, and it suddenly rose up in attention... mmmm????

Is danger coming??

Haha... man... the ant kingdom is really awesome, a few minutes ago I was ready to burn their nest but after looking at how wonderful it is, I just spent alot of time siting down there watching the nest and how it's working inside...

Then awhile later I had to leave... mmm shall go back again and spend more time on it~ man man man... I need a macro lens for this!! This is the closest I could get~!! XD

But really I'm really susprised on how the picture quality came out, the sharpness, the bokeh, everything about it, I really am shocked 0.0

But... I guess... I'm getting better?? =)

Still stuck with my 50mm lens and my kit lens though.. stuck with limited equipment but... gotta make the best with what I have till I'm ready to take on a new lens~ whew...

Ants...mmmm.... =)