Technomyrmex difficilis, brood nest with workers and developing larvae and pupae. This African species has become a pest in warm climates around the world. St. Lucia, KZN, South Africa - Alex Wild Photography - Insect Photography

Metamorphosis

Images from the life cycle of developing ants.

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Technomyrmex difficilis, brood nest with workers and developing larvae and pupae. This African species has become a pest in warm climates around the world.

St. Lucia, KZN, South Africa

Sericomyrmex amabilis. An ant worker tends to brood in the fungus garden. Note how the eggs and larvae are embedded within the fluffy white hyphae of the fungus.

Parque Soberania, Panama; Laboratory colony at the University of Texas

Inside the dark confines of a statary bivouac, worker Eciton burchellii army ants carry larvae.

Maquipucuna reserve, Pichincha, Ecuador

Strumigenys lujae tending to larvae in the nest.

Kibale Forest, Uganda

A preserved collection of a Leptanilla colony shows a queen (at center) and piles of elongate larvae.

Kibale forest, Uganda

Crematogaster sp.

Kibale forest, Uganda

Discothyrea mixta

Kibale forest, Uganda
JTL-7912

The impressive predatory mandibles of Psalidomyrmex reichenspergeri can also be used delicately to transport eggs in the nest.

Kibale forest, Uganda

Technomyrmex difficilis, brood nest with workers and developing larvae and pupae. This African species has become a pest in warm climates around the world.

St. Lucia, KZN, South Africa

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