Neivamyrmex army ants prey primarily on the brood of other ant species, but they will also take adult ants. Here army ants make short work of a Lasius foundress queen they encountered in a subterranean raid. (Neivamyrmex nigrescens). Portal, Arizona, USA - Alex Wild Photography - Insect Photography

Predation

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Neivamyrmex army ants are specialist predators of the brood of other ant species. Here, N. californicus raid the brood nest of the pavement ant Tetramorium caespitum.

California, USA

Neivamyrmex army ants prey primarily on the brood of other ant species, but they will also take adult ants. Here army ants make short work of a Lasius foundress queen they encountered in a subterranean raid. (Neivamyrmex nigrescens).

Portal, Arizona, USA

Neivamyrmex nigrescens army ants are predators of other ant species. Here an army ant worker carries a paralyzed prey ant back from a successful raid on an Aphaenogaster nest.

Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, USA

Odontomachus bauri. Millisecnds ahead of a mandible strike, a tropical trap-jaw ant closes in on its cricket prey.

La Selva, Heredia, Costa Rica

Caught! A small cricket is impaled on the mandibles of a malagasy trap-jaw ant, Odontomachus coquereli.

Madagascar

An Odontomachus bauri worker has captured an earthworm and is carrying it home.

Gamboa, Panama

Oecophylla smaragdina green tree ants cooperate to bring a grasshopper carcass back to their nest.

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia

Paratrechina longicornis - black crazy ant. Workers cooperate to bring a termite carcass back to their nest.

Isla Contadora, Panama

Neivamyrmex army ants prey primarily on the brood of other ant species, but they will also take adult ants. Here army ants make short work of a Lasius foundress queen they encountered in a subterranean raid. (Neivamyrmex nigrescens).

Portal, Arizona, USA

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Keywords: insects predation hymenoptera ecology neivamyrmex ecitoninae army ants army ant formicidae neivamyrmex nigrescens worker ants lasius ant predation army ant raid ant carrying

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