Ants are so small that they cannot even be seen properly, in such a situation it is very difficult to say what the face of ants looks like. But this difficulty is made easy by a photographer who has taken a very scary photo of an ant’s face. This picture was given ‘Images of Distinction’ in the photo contest.
Ants are so small that sometimes they are not even visible. Anyone can crush them. But when they bite, their true power is revealed. Do you know that these brutally biting ants actually look equally scary.
Recently a photography competition was organized globally. Small World Photomicrography Competition 2022 in which pictures of small creatures were to be sent and sent. In this competition, a person captured a surprising picture of an ant. This picture of an ant’s face can be called terrifying.
A Lithuania-based photographer, Eugenius Kavaliauskas captured the attention of the judges by capturing this picture. The title of this picture was – ‘Ant (Camponotus). The alien-like face of the ant was captured with a stereo 10x microscope magnified five times. The judges rewarded this stunning picture by placing it in the ‘Images of Distinction’ category.
So, what is it that makes this zoomed picture look horrifying? Perhaps it is the antennae of this ant, which look like the red eyes of a monster. Or maybe this ant’s fangs look scary.
Ants become zombies
If you are not scared of this scary picture of ant, then we tell you another surprising thing about ant. Entomologists say that some parasites control the mind of ants, and turn them into zombies. These ants then act like puppets. This fungus, which controls the mind, goes into the body of the ants, where it develops and spreads.
Horrifying close-up photo of an ant is the stuff of nightmares https://t.co/rulY4nXcSn
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For the first one week, everything is fine, but after that the movement of ants starts changing. Ants always running in a straight line, then move here and there without aiming, sometimes they go round and round or do not move much. At the last stage of this disease, they find the top surface of a bush, on which they bite and die there. Now that fungus comes out of their body and starts searching for another victim.
