OK, I am exploiting some literary license-bees don't have a bum after all-but I just couldn't resist! The item in question is actually the abdomen of a bumble bee; and the photo below is one of a baker's dozen of pics of western thatching ants I posted on my blog last night. Cheers, EC...

Hi all, My latest blog is about photographing ants...which are everything that a macro photographer looks for: they are small (pretty much a prerequisite for macro), attractive (some of them at least) and best of all, they do interesting things. The photo below is a western thatching ant...