This predatory Rhytidoponera worker has captured a caterpillar and is carrying it back to her nest. Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia - Alex Wild Photography - Insect Photography

Predation

Images of ants hunting and scavenging.

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Strumigenys louisianae is a predator of springtails.

Tucson, Arizona, USA

Leptomyrmex rufipes workers cooperate to bring a grasshopper carcass back to their nest.

Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia

Leptomyrmex rufipes workers cooperate to bring a grasshopper carcass back to their nest. These large, leggy insects are some of the most gracile ants in the world; note the impressive spread of the antennae of the foreground worker.

Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia

Leptogenys falcigera is a predatory ant that attacks isopods.

Hawaii

Leptogenys falcigera is a predator of isopods.

Hawaii

Rhytidoponera ants cooperate to carry a dead caterpillar back to their nest.

Wilson's Promontory National Park, Victoria, Australia

This predatory Rhytidoponera worker has captured a caterpillar and is carrying it back to her nest.

Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia

Ants will not often consume dead ants of their own species, but they may readily take ant carcasses of other species. Here a Rhytidoponera worker has found the carcass of a large Camponotus and is dragging it back to her nest where it will be fed to hungry larvae.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

Pheidologeton affinis, supermajor and minor workers attacking a beetle grub. Supermajors have powerful mandibles useful for cutting up and carrying large prey items. The supermajor pictured here was able to single-handedly drag this very large beetle larva across the substrate while I photographed them.

Rossville, Queensland, Australia

This predatory Rhytidoponera worker has captured a caterpillar and is carrying it back to her nest.

Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia

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