Crematogaster acrobat ant workers taking nectar from a lily. Cape Tribulation, Queensland, 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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Camponotus novaehollandiae

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia

Camponotus gouldianus

Poochera, South Australia

Camponotus gasseri

Adelaide, South Australia

Camponotus suffusus carrying a pupae through their colony's underground galleries.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

Cerapachys larvatus

Harrietville, Victoria, Australia

A Cerapachys larvatus worker dispatches a Stigmacros guard during a predatory raid on the little ants' nest.

Harrietville, Victoria, Australia

A column of sleek Cerapachys ruficornis. Notice that most of these ants carry small red mites on their bodies.

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia

Crematogaster acrobat ant workers taking nectar from a lily.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia

Crematogaster acrobat ant workers taking nectar from a lily.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia

Crematogaster acrobat ant workers taking nectar from a lily.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia

Crematogaster acrobat ant workers taking nectar from a lily.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia

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Keywords: ants formicidae nectar robbing crematogaster acrobat ants

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