Iridomyrmex sp. Yandoit, Victoria, Australia - Alex Wild Photography - Insect Photography - Insect Pictures

Worker Ants

Images of the female non-reproductive caste.

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Ectatomma brunneum performing nest maintainance.

Frías, Santiago del Estero, Argentina

A Forelius grandis worker carries a stone excavated from her nest.

Amaicha del Valle, Tucumán, Argentina

Formica incerta. Ants as earthbound creatures are not ideal pollinators, but they can carry pollen over short distances.

Champaign, Illinois, USA

Formica obscuripes nestmate workers engaging in trophallaxis, or the social sharing of liquid food.

Wisconsin, USA

Although most ants hunt by sense of touch and smell, Harpegnathos saltator is a visual predator, spotting prey from a distance and snaring it tiny rows of teeth on the elongate mandibles.

Laboratory colony at Arizona State University, USA

Heteroponera relicta

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia

Kalathomyrmex emeryi

Los Reartes, Córdoba, Argentina

Gnamptogenys mordax

Venezuela

Iridomyrmex sp.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

Iridomyrmex sp.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

Iridomyrmex sp.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

Iridomyrmex sp.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

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Keywords: caste hymenoptera ecology biodiversity formicidae iridomyrmex dolichoderinae polymorphism worker ants nestmates

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