Category: Leafcutter Ants

Extension tubes open up a whole new world of photography!

Ben Cherry

With travel photography, one of the issues is prioritising equipment. You simply can’t carry everything you could possibly want to bring. If you do then it often hampers the overall travel experience as you’re weighed down by equipment and have to constantly look after it. For me, on my current trip that meant I couldn’t […]

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Canon DSLR destroyed by Leafcutter ants in overnight wildlife shoot in the Amazon rainforest

John Aldred

When entomologist Phil Torres, along with wildlife photographer Jeff Cremer, set up a Canon 7D and infrared sensor in the Amazon rainforest to get some shots of a jaguar or other wildlife at night, they hoped they’d thought of everything. As it turns out, the local leafcutter ant population had very different ideas.  After chewing up much of their protection […]

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