My chive plants, when in bloom, attract these odd red/orange ants every year. One plant was loaded with them!
Marching Ants
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My chive plants, when in bloom, attract these odd red/orange ants every year. One plant was loaded with them!
Schelley Cassidy Photography 
Lovely photos of aphids, they are farmed by ants for the sweet nectar they produce.
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Thank you, Victor, for teaching me something new today. I love how my one chive plant has produced many plants now. This explains why they show up each year. 😀
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With pleasure!
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As they don’t look like any ant I have seen I had a search for them and came up with this: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/orn/leaffooted_bug.htm
apparently they are the nymphs of the leaffooted bug and it seems very common in San Antonio 🙂
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Shows you how much I know! lol
Victor also pointed out my error, he thinks they are aphids. I will have to check out your link as soon as I fix this issue on my doc.
sigh
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If you look at this other link and the last photo they look like your bugs! http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/txgard/msg0600045319498.html
I have never seen them here, though we do get green stinkbugs that chomp flowers and leaves.
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Interesting! Bugs are such an odd lot.
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Wow – Amazing macros!!
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Thanks, Marilyn! I happened to notice these all over the chive flowers so I immediately grabbed my camera. The lens kept on fogging up (because of the humidity), which made a natural soft filter. Yay!
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Wow, I’ve never seen those before! Great images Schelley 🙂
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Thank you, Sarah! I only see them when the chives bloom. Usually only one though, but this year it’s an army of them. 🙂
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Fascinating to watch!
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Great pictures, Schelley! I might as well weigh in with my guess…how about an assassin bug? Here’s a link: http://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Assassin-Bug
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Egads! 🙂
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