Alex Wild Photography - Insect Images

Anonychomyrma

is a forest-dwelling dolichoderine genus found from Malaysia to southern Australia. These medium-sized ants release a distinctive acrid odor when disturbed.

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alexwild > Anonychomyrma scrutator worker foraging in the leaf litter of an Australian rain forest.

Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia

alexwild > Anonychomyrma sp.

Wilson's Promontory National Park, Victoria, Australia

alexwild > Anonychomyrma ants warn the photographer to keep a distance.

Wilson's Promontory National Park, Victoria, Australia

alexwild > A pair of Anonychomyrma ants cooperate to bring a piece of an insect carcass back to their nest.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia

alexwild > An Anonychomyrma worker drops a bit of wood pulp removed from an excavation deep within the nest tree.

Wilson's Promontory National Park, Victoria, Australia

Anonychomyrma sp.

Wilson's Promontory National Park, Victoria, Australia

Camera: Canon (Canon Eos D60) |

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Keywords: ants nature insect recruitment formicidae dolichoderinae worker ants social insects anonychomyrma rainforest ant black cocktail ants ants drinking

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