Ashwini just had a minute so came to this link question: can you share a couple of your ants' antics pictures here?
comment : i am often upset, amused and irritated by my iphone doing silly auto-correction. Love your observations take care usha di On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:02 PM, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> wrote: > Please read *I. scabrida* instead of I. seabird (auto corrected by my > intelligent machine) in the first line. > > Thanks. > Ashwini > > On 29 Jun 2016, at 21:57, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> > wrote: > > For some time I have been noticing ants walking over the I. seabird > plants. This afternoon I sat and observed them. A large individual, perhaps > a queen, was foraging with a smaller (worker?) ant and to me they appear to > be the carpenter ants. They seem to be interested in red stipule like > growths under the leaf stalks. Every few seconds they would visit another > stipule and place their mandibles there and move on again. I took some > photographs and researched the phenomenon at home. I found out that *I. > scabrida* has stipule like nectaries which store glucose and other sugars > which is what these ants were interested in. > > Is this commonly known about this *Impatiens* and the ants? What do the > ants give the plant in return? Since they do not visit the flowers for > nectar, they are not the pollen couriers. I have seen bumblebees visiting > the flowers regularly and guess them to be the primary pollinators. > > Thanks. > Ashwini > > <_MG_8469_29June2016.jpg> > <_MG_9686_29June2016.jpg><_MG_9716_29June2016.jpg> > <_MG_9726_29June2016.jpg> > > > > On 26 Aug 2015, at 08:57, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thank you Ushadi. Mr Garg usually forwards me the messages that concern me > as I do not subscribe to all mails, only digests. > > Regards, > Ashwini > > On 25-Aug-2015, at 4:59 am, Ushadi Micromini <[email protected]> > wrote: > > this message came thru indiatreepix, so i surmise its not a private massage > > but does not Ashwini in address line > or eflora > so forwarding it > Thanks Wojciech., nice to know my plants official name > > usha di > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: 'Wojciech' via efloraofindia <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 12:04 AM > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:230315] Impatiens scabrida ABJUL01/24 > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > > For clarification: plants on pictures from Ushadi ji's garden are > Impatiens balsamina. > Garden varieties of this species could have flowers in different shades of > rosa, red, white, violet. > Wild form comes most probably from southern India and SE Asia, but as the > species is cultivated not less than 4000 years, it is difficult now to show > precise place. > Capsules of I. balsamina are short and hairy. > Shape of capsules is used to recognize broader groups of species. > I. scabrida recently escaped from culture (?) in some European countries: > Italy, Austria and Netherland. > Best regards Wojciech > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > > > > > -- Usha di =========== -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
