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Queen Ants

Images of the female reproductive caste.

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Formica fusca queen and workers in the nest.

Sagehen Creek, California, USA

Male and female Forelius mccooki in the nest.

Tucson, Arizona, USA

Gnamptogenys mordax queen and worker. Notice that the queen has a larger, more complex thorax. She begins her adult life with wings for dispersal, so she bears all the sclerites and musculature associated with flight. The flightless workers have a simpler anatomy.

Venezuela

Lasius (Acanthomyops) claviger is a nest-founding parasite. Following this young queen's mating flight, she will attempt to enter the nest of a Lasius species, kill the resident queen, and coopt the Lasius worker force to raise out her own offspring.

South Bristol, New York, USA

Iridomyrmex purpureus. A young meat ant queen searches for a place to start a nest.

Little Desert National Park, Victoria, Australia

A Lasius neoniger queen pauses for a rest while she searches for a suitable nesting site after her mating flight.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

A young Lasius (Acanthomyops) interjectus gyne grooms herself before taking to the air on her mating flight.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

A queen and worker Argentine ant, Linepithema humile.

Córdoba, Argentina

A worker and queen Argentine ant, Linepithema humile.

Córdoba, Argentina

Formica fusca queen and workers in the nest.

Sagehen Creek, California, USA

Formica fusca queen and workers in the nest.

Sagehen Creek, California, USA

Formica fusca queen and workers in the nest.

Sagehen Creek, California, USA

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Keywords: ants insect insects formica queen ant queen ants formicidae ant nest formicinae ant queens black ants castes eusocial gyne social insects eusociality field ants field ant formica fusca

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