Have you heard about this Ghost ants?
Or did you happen to see one?
So the colorful picture shows how ghost ants look like. I randomly saw this picture in the internet and got curious. So I decided to research about it.
Do they look like ghost to you?
This rainbow-colored transparent ants is commonly known as Ghost ants.
Ghost ants, scientifically known as Tapimona melanocephalum, have transparent abdomens therefore they are what they eat.
Dr. Mohamed Babu of Mysore, South India originally owned this pictures. He got an idea to capture these amazing photos after his wife showed him that the abdomens of the ants became white after drinking spilled milk on the floor of their kitchen.
Dr. Babu mixed sugar with edible colors of blue, green, red and yellow, and based it with a paraffin sheet to prevent collapsing when ants touch them. He then placed it in his garden to attract the ants.
Isn't it amazing? Isn't it fascinating? Who could have thought that these are pictures of ghost ants? Some of the ants have color combination in their bodies because they even wandered from one color to another.
References:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2022765/The-ants-multi-coloured-abdomens-exactly-theyve-eating.html#ixzz23jI2Xzkd
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/ants/ghost_ant.htm
