Queen Ants

Images of the female reproductive caste.

gallery pages: << < 5 6 7 8 9 10 >

< 55 of 87 >

Neivamyrmex opacithorax army ant queen with a retinue of workers. Unlike most queen ants which are born with wings for dispersal and large eyes for visual navigation, army ant queens are always wingless and have greatly reduced eyes.

Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, USA

A queen Neivamyrmex opacithorax army ant surrounded by her much smaller worker offspring.

Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, USA

A queen Neivamyrmex opacithorax army ant. Her enormous abdomen houses ovaries for egg production. Queen army ants are among the most fecund of all insects, as army ant colonies may have tens or hundreds of thousands of worker ants (such as the small ant pictured riding on top) and the reproduction is the work of a single mother queen.

Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, USA

Pogonomyrmex badius, the Florida harvester ant, queen. Her enlarged thorax holds muscles from younger days when she had wings for dispersing from her natal nest.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA

Pogonomyrmex badius, the Florida harvester ant, queen and worker

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis, the western harvester ants, mating

Hallelujah Junction, California, USA

A queen Polyergus breviceps with a host Formica argentea worker.

Sagehen Creek, California, USA

Unrolling a leaf nest of a small weaver ant Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) robsoni reveals a queen.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia

Neivamyrmex opacithorax army ant queen with a retinue of workers. Unlike most queen ants which are born with wings for dispersal and large eyes for visual navigation, army ant queens are always wingless and have greatly reduced eyes.

Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, USA

Original size: 3076x2052 |

Current: 800x534 |

Share photo: links, forums, blogs |

gallery pages: << < 5 6 7 8 9 10 >

< 55 of 87 >

Comments

|

Available Feeds

Gallery Photos:

Atom |

RSS