ants in our plants

Mrs McMuffin has made an amazing discovery. She was about to tip out a dead plant from a flower pot when she discovered that it contained an ant's nest. They have built their home in the flower pot. The earth in the pot has been excavated and is honeycombed with little ant tunnels. I took a couple of photos, but the little buggers move so fast it was hard to photograph them. There are ants in the top photo, but they are little blurs of motion. I love the second picture, that is them climbing around the flower pot, because you can get a sense of the scale of the pot. These must be special mountaineering ants. Ain't nature grand?

[I (Mrs McM) just wanted to let you know that we didn't actually evict the ants from their new home. The nest in a pot has pride of place on our doorstep, with a bit of straggly couch grass growing out of the top of it. Beautiful it isn't, but it is useful.]