In the spring, the palo verde tree blossoms with thousands of tiny yellow flowers. A biologist friend of mine tells me that the Attine ant species collects these flowers (that are no bigger than the fingernail on the pinky finger of an infant's hand) and laboriously hauls them back to their subterranean colony home where, by a complex process, the flowers are converted into a fungi that the ants store and consume as food. Amazing. What you see in the photo is the long line of ants transporting the flowers 12'-15' from the base of a palo verde tree in the background to their underground home in the foreground.
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." --Marcel Proust ………
In school, I was a visual learner....
