One of the great joys of macro photography is that sometimes you see something which is not visible to the naked eye. I was walking around with a camera and a macro lens and not really finding any interesting subjects. Just as I was about to head off home I came across a small thistle flower, maybe 1/2 inch across. As I got close to it with the macro lens I noticed that it was teeming with these tiny ants.

Taken with a Sony A77II and Minolta 50mm f2.8 Macro lens