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Jerome Baur

#flashback with this #soundtrack of the #performance “Microcosmos” I #composed in #copenhagen
A Fabulous #show for #young #audiences created by Giacomo Ravicchio - #production : Meridiano #theater 🇩🇰
A #journey of #visual #magic for #children to #discover the #sizes of #things , large, small, #scale of #universe versus the one of an #ant
For this #music I #explored many #timbres of the #bassclarinet its #sounds #harmonics #percussions merged with #minimal #electro

+ music-baur.com/en/

Poster of Microcosmos, a theater show, music by Jerome baur
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Stefan F. Wirth

The #Norwaymaple #Acer #platanoides is a native #tree of (Central) #Europe that spread northward after the last #IceAge along with mixed oak forests and is still commonly found in such #treecommunities today. Like all #trees, it offers #habitats for numerous organisms, forming complex macro#ecosystems, e.g., the #leaves, where #aphids feed, while the #ant #Formica #fusca is collecting their excretions (honeydew) as food.
#ecology #evolution
© #StefanFWirth #Berlin May 2025

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© S.F. Wirth

Leaf of Norway maple in Berlin on a meadow near park Goethepark, May 2025, © StefanFWirth
Aphid on a leaf of a Norway maple in Berlin on a meadow near park Goethepark, May 2025, © StefanFWirth
A Formica fusca worker on a leaf of a Norway maple in Berlin on a meadow near park Goethepark, May 2025, © StefanFWirth
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Stefan F. Wirth

The #duskyant, #Formica #fusca (#Myrmicinae), is a ground-dwelling #ant with #earthnests in warmer habitats, widespread in #CentralEurope and extending across the western #Palearctic. The nests are #polygynous (severely active #queens). Like many ant species, this one also carries #phoretic organisms on its body, e.g., #mites of the #Histiostomatidae. #biodiversity #insects #Hymenoptera

© #StefanFWirth, #Berlin May 2025

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#Worker of F. fusca Berlin, May 2025, © S.F. Wirth

Worker of Formica fusca in Berlin, May 2025, © S.F. Wirth
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The mimics and the mimicked. Note how the spider and the beetle not only are reddish brown with black at posterior end but they both have two white perpendicular dashes that separate these colors. These white dashes probably make them look like they have a waist like the carpenter ant.

I observed these today on a hike at a local state park. Species names are in the alt tags.

Euderces reichei, species of the longhorn beetle family, with coloration and body shape mimicking the carpenter ant. Reddish brown with black at posterior end. Two white perpendicular dashes separate these colors, probably makes it look like it has a waist like an ant.
Spider, Genus Peckhamia, body shape and coloration mimics the carpenter ant. Reddish brown with black at posterior end. Two white perpendicular dashes separate these colors, probably makes it look like it has a waist like an ant.
Carpenter ant, Genus Camponotus. Feeding on a white flower, this ant has a smooth body, reddish with a black oblong abdomen.
#spider#beetle#ant
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