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We used a cherrypicker to make observations of ants using arboreal sugars in the canopies of trees in remnant bushland. Some ants feed predominantly on sugars derived from plants, such as nectar and honeydew, a waste product excreted by sap-sucking bugs including tree hoppers and scale insects. (Photo by Natalie Banks 2006)
  • We used a cherrypicker to make observations of ants using arboreal sugars in the canopies of trees in remnant bushland. Some ants feed predominantly on sugars derived from plants, such as nectar and honeydew, a waste product excreted by sap-sucking bugs including tree hoppers and scale insects. (Photo by Natalie Banks 2006)
  • Meat ants engaged in ritualised fighting near Hopetoun.
  • Collecting honeydew-producing aphids, a major food source of red wood ants, from the spruce canopy.
  • Nicole Coggan and visiting scientist, Therese Johansson from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at Scotia Sanctuary (Heloise Gibb).
  • Botany Bay diamond beetle, Sydney (Nicole Coggan).
  • Field work shelter (Nicole Coggan).
  • Monomorium sydneyense (Mike).
  • Colin with Urodacus yashenkoi (Colin Silvey).
  • Building exclusion fences, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW (Heloise Gibb).
  • Calomyrmex sp, Scotia Sanctuary (Heloise Gibb).
  • Fieldwork looking at competitive interactions in ant assemblages in Swedish forests. In this study we tested how microhabitat structure affected foraging success in phylogenetically distinct ant faunas in Australia, Sweden and Africa. (Photo by Gibb 2007)

In the field

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