A foraging Stigmacros worker. These small ants are easy to overlook. Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia - Alex Wild Photography - Insect Photography - Insect Pictures

Australian Ants

The wayward southern continent of Australia is famous for the strange and relictual creatures that have evolved in nearly complete isolation. The ants are no exception. Australia's ant fauna is both diverse and exceptionally abundant, with a host of species found nowhere else.

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Stigmacros sp.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

A young Stigmacros queen pauses to groom herself while looking for a spot to found a new colony.

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia

Stigmacros worker ants with an Anthrenocerus dermestid beetle larva. The beetle is likely a commensal inhabitant of the ant's nest, taking advantage of the ants' climate-controlled colony while feeding on debris around the nest.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

A foraging Stigmacros worker. These small ants are easy to overlook.

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia

Technomyrmex difficilis, the white-footed ant, has spread around the world with commerce and is now common in many tropical countries. Here, a worker carries a pupa.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia

Technomyrmex jocosus

Nhill, Victoria, Australia

Arboreal Tetraponera nest in hollow spaces of twigs and branches. The ants' slender bodies allow them to maneuver in narrow spaces. (Tetraponera laeviceps).

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia

Tetramorium validiusculum - worker with larvae nesting in a hollow mangrove twig.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia

Turneria bidentata

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia

A foraging Stigmacros worker. These small ants are easy to overlook.

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia

A foraging Stigmacros worker. These small ants are easy to overlook.

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia

A foraging Stigmacros worker. These small ants are easy to overlook.

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia

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Keywords: ants insect insects hymenoptera formicidae formicinae worker ant stigmacros small orange ant

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