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I hiked this part of Liberty Lake called Coot Peninsula. I was amazed by the concentrated mass number of giant mounds built by the Allegheny Mound Ant here. I encountered at least 20 individual mounds on my hike. Some were in clusters, some were busy with activity and some seemed rather deserted. I setup my new tripod so that I could position the camera firmly an inch from the mound and got a few good macro shots with my raynox macro adapter. It didn't take long for the ants to start noticing and before long they were venturing up the tripod and onto my shoes so I decided to move along. I took a video of the mound too located here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbeatty/9575097736/