OK, I am exploiting some literary license—bees don’t have a bum after all—but I just couldn’t resist! The item in question is actually the abdomen of a bumble bee; and the photo below is one of a baker’s dozen of pics of western thatching ants I posted on my blog last night.

Cheers,
EC
macrocritters

1 ant 2 tighter copyright Ernie Cooper 2012 sm by ernie.cooper, on Flickr