This afternoon, Elizabeth Compston of Wells
Gardens, valued member of this chatline and tireless advocate
of name-tag wearing, asked me to photograph some unusual small
ants she had discovered in her cactus garden. The ants
appeared to have made a coffee-cup-size nest of fine plant
material, matted together, at the base of a cactus plant,
They were about 3mm long excluding antennae. Most (not all)
had an unusually large abdomen by comparison with the normal
run of picnic ant. I said to Elizabeth: “Someone is bound to
know about these chaps” … (?)
