Sunday, January 13, 2013

Cycle of Life!




I found this moth already decapitated with these ants partaking on whatever remnants will still be useful in their colony. They will chop-chop the whole moth according to the size they will be able to jointly carry to their sanctuary underground. And that is the food chain, food web, or the cycle of life. I wonder if there is also a butterfly or moth haven to accommodate them!

This is Straight out of Camera for Sunday - SOOCS!



19 comments:

  1. The poor moth! Quite sad and such beautifully coloured wings! Thank you for your wonderful comment about serendipity and our posts! There is a magical connection!

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  2. your photo is wonderfully captured but sad to see the moth being eaten by the ants.

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  3. Poor moth! But yes all part of the cycle of life!

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  4. It looks like it was caught in a spider's web. I wonder if a spider took the first bite.

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  5. Nice photo, the cycle of life ...

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  6. looks like the edible and palatable part is the thorax and abdomen. They'll probably leave the wings alone since it is only membrane and powder or scales. Good capture.

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  7. Poor moth, but the cycle of life must go on. Great capture!

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  8. aw...but such is the cycle of life.

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  9. I know it is the circle of life ---but that doesn't mean that we have to like it.... I worry about my sweet little backyard birds ---when the hawks are around... But--there's not much I can do about it... I'm sure it's a hard life for all of the critters out there.


    Happy Sunday to you.
    Hugs,
    Betsy

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  10. Tak to jest w przyrodzie, jedno jest pokarmem dla drugiego. Pozdrawiam.
    That's how it is in nature, one is food for another. Yours.

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  11. I guess that the creepy crawly ants have to eat too. The beauty and ugliness of that circle of life are here. A great capture!

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  12. wow that is quite a shot!!

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  13. Thank for your comment. I like this issue. You too can write to get public awareness.

    I grew up in Borneo. Ex Sarawakian which belongs to Malaysia. I left when I was 20.

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  14. Thats what happens! But its still an interesting picture.

    Stewart M - Melbourne

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  15. there is a time and place for everything under heaven, isn't it.

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  16. Kinda disgusting, but it truly is an accurate representation of that cycle of life.

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  17. Andrea this is great! Nature is the best recycler!

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  18. poor one. But the ants must be fed too.

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