Monomad : Cactus Flowers and Black Ants

Hello everyone, on this occasion I will again share some photos of flowers growing on cactus plants and surrounded by some black ants, then I edited them to black and white, this is my entry for the #monomad challenge every day

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This flower grows very fertile on cactus plants, at first I thought this flower which later when it grew up would become a fruit commonly called "Dragon Fruit" but after I showed it to the owner, it turned out that this flower was just an ordinary cactus flower, which after growing up it will fall by itself without becoming something that can be eaten

But I was a little surprised by this flower, the skin is red when it is small and when it is a little big it will turn yellow and at the end of each slit the flower is red, and what makes me even more curious is this flower is surrounded by a lot of black ants I don't know what they are doing there there, do they suck honey from this flower, like the flowers I have prepared below

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As I said above, this flower will be red when it is small, and I also got this cactus flower

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I also prepared one flower that I didn't edit into black and white, so that the color is so beautiful

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Those are some photos that I can share on this occasion, all the flowers above are flowers that I took this afternoon when I was supervising a road construction project in my area.

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Camera	Poco x3 Pro
Location	Aceh, Indonesia
Category	Macro photography
Editing	Lightroom
Photographer	@vikar