<![CDATA[A black garden leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, slicing through a leaf.]]>A black garden leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, slicing through a leaf. Santa Fe, Argentina. (older photo from 2009)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/ad33eb65-f051-4fe2-a993-bb8e2f486df8/a-black-garden-leafcutter-ant-acromyrmex-lundii-slicing-through-a-leaf.RSS for NodeThu, 28 May 2026 19:35:25 GMTTue, 26 May 2026 22:08:23 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to A black garden leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, slicing through a leaf. on Wed, 27 May 2026 10:46:19 GMT]]>@futurebird 🤣

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/chessert/statuses/116646135697684131https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/chessert/statuses/116646135697684131Wed, 27 May 2026 10:46:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A black garden leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, slicing through a leaf. on Wed, 27 May 2026 10:46:02 GMT]]>@chessert

These lizards are fine... but they suck at counting.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116646134594894763https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116646134594894763Wed, 27 May 2026 10:46:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A black garden leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, slicing through a leaf. on Wed, 27 May 2026 10:45:29 GMT]]>@chessert

The wikipedia article is unusually entertaining. Apparently they are also bad at math. Why do they have to make it sound like the poor lizard needs to go to summer school??

"... experiments confirm the ability of P. siculus to learn ... However, there is controversy over the ability of P. siculus to perform quantitative discrimination...while 60% of subjects were able to distinguish between 1 and 4 items, very few were able to distinguish between 2 and 4 items"

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116646132399816175https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116646132399816175Wed, 27 May 2026 10:45:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A black garden leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, slicing through a leaf. on Wed, 27 May 2026 10:40:22 GMT]]>@futurebird

Cute. Reminds me of the smaller green anoles that used to hang out on our porches in South Carolina.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/chessert/statuses/116646112296888586https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/chessert/statuses/116646112296888586Wed, 27 May 2026 10:40:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A black garden leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, slicing through a leaf. on Wed, 27 May 2026 10:13:02 GMT]]>@tschfflr @alexwild @waitworry

Invasive and cute. Look @Mikal Look @datarama !

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116646004792039672https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116646004792039672Wed, 27 May 2026 10:13:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A black garden leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, slicing through a leaf. on Wed, 27 May 2026 08:39:38 GMT]]>@futurebird @tschfflr @alexwild @waitworry funny enough, the only place I have found a lizard in the UK was on a disused railway. I wonder if they enjoy the sun-basking opportunities of the broken-stone track bed?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/AbramKedge/statuses/116645637569013199https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/AbramKedge/statuses/116645637569013199Wed, 27 May 2026 08:39:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A black garden leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, slicing through a leaf. on Wed, 27 May 2026 08:24:37 GMT]]>@tschfflr @alexwild @waitworry

IDK. Reading the wikipedia article it sounds like you might find them riding the LIRR...

"The species seems to be extending its range from an initial colonization event in western Long Island, presumably by using railroad tracks as dispersal corridors along the middle East Coast. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_wall_lizard

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116645578508166377https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116645578508166377Wed, 27 May 2026 08:24:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A black garden leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, slicing through a leaf. on Wed, 27 May 2026 05:48:43 GMT]]>@alexwild @waitworry @futurebird guess where my friends found the “Italian wall lizard” 😅

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fediscience.org/users/tschfflr/statuses/116644965482173242https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fediscience.org/users/tschfflr/statuses/116644965482173242Wed, 27 May 2026 05:48:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A black garden leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, slicing through a leaf. on Wed, 27 May 2026 04:53:47 GMT]]>@alexwild Locally, I've seen evidence of cut leaves from Leafcutter Bees (genus Megachile), but I've yet to catch one in the act of cutting leaves.

@ophis @waitworry @futurebird

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megachile

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.io/users/sohkamyung/statuses/116644749475350625https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.io/users/sohkamyung/statuses/116644749475350625Wed, 27 May 2026 04:53:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A black garden leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, slicing through a leaf. on Wed, 27 May 2026 01:28:19 GMT]]>@alexwild @waitworry @futurebird before i saw the rest of the thread i thought this was about how bad modern search engines were!

(link for anyone who might actually be suffering from a very bad search engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenopinidae)]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://brain.worm.pink/objects/effabee9-eb94-4060-ab32-e72acfbaa5a6https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://brain.worm.pink/objects/effabee9-eb94-4060-ab32-e72acfbaa5a6Wed, 27 May 2026 01:28:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A black garden leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, slicing through a leaf. on Wed, 27 May 2026 00:02:24 GMT]]>@waitworry @futurebird A few years back, I collected a fly I didn't recognize, from my window. I looked it up. It was a "window fly".

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/alexwild/statuses/116643603686828259https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/alexwild/statuses/116643603686828259Wed, 27 May 2026 00:02:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A black garden leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, slicing through a leaf. on Tue, 26 May 2026 22:31:17 GMT]]>@alexwild

She's one of these with legs.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116643245396337152https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird/statuses/116643245396337152Tue, 26 May 2026 22:31:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A black garden leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, slicing through a leaf. on Tue, 26 May 2026 22:28:54 GMT]]>@alexwild @futurebird oh it is doing the thing like its name

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sakurajima.moe/users/waitworry/statuses/116643236068281072https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sakurajima.moe/users/waitworry/statuses/116643236068281072Tue, 26 May 2026 22:28:54 GMT