Cyrill Fromm

Azolla ❤️

Living in Symbiosis with the cyanobacteria Anabaena azollae, this floating fern has the highest nitrogen fixation rate of any plant. Much higher than legumes.

Atleast it does seem to house a great amount of filamentous cyanobacteria containing heterocysts for nitrogen fixation

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Makroalgae 😃

Oecophylla smaragdina

Nephila pilipes

Found in the philippines

Bat temple in Bali

Ipomoea pes-caprae.

Since childhood Ipomoea is one of my favorite plant genus....

So of course seeing one of the few halotolerant Ipomoea species is even more exciting.

Albeit its pretty common on most tropical beaches...

A valuable source of minerals and for some Ant species also nitrogen.

Many ant species evolved a symbiosis with bacteria to utilize urea and uric acid for amino acid synthesis.

But not sure if it also applies to These Technomyrmex.

Nephila cf antipodiana

Bromeliads❤️

Termite hunting in Odontoponera

Theobroma cacao

Planted it some years ago.

Back to the philippines.

So many tropical plants 🤩

Acromyrmex versicolor are always happy to get some frass from The Schistocerca gregaria.

Good fertilizer for the fungus garden.

Euphrynichus bacillifer at night.

Timelapse

With my interest in both ants and plants, this is one of my favorite interactions in captivity.

In this case a Dolichoderus cf longicollis worker harvesting extrafloral nectar from a newly emerged Ipomoea carnea leaf.

Nasutitermes sp

Diacamma larvae feeding on roach

Nasutitermes Trail

Captive colony

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Passiflora helleri

I always love how the leaves look, with those droplets of extrafloral nectar.

In nature the nectar is not only supposed to attract ants for protection, but also to imitate caterpillar eggs to discurage other butterflies from placing their own eggs on the leaves.

Eggs and tiny fungus Acromyrmex versicolor

Euphrynichus bacillifer new offspring.