Formica incerta workers carry a pupa to safety after the photographer disturbs their nest. Bell Smith Springs, Illinois, USA - Alex Wild Photography - Insect Photography

Formica

is an ubiquitous formicine genus across temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. These large, alert ants are diverse in behavior and ecology. Formica includes some slave-raiders as well as less extreme forms of social parasitism.

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Formica fusca

South Bristol, New York, USA

Formica glacialis

South Bristol, New York, USA

Formica gnava foraging worker carrying a bark louse it has caught.

Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, USA

Formica incerta workers carry a pupa to safety after the photographer disturbs their nest.

Bell Smith Springs, Illinois, USA

Formica incerta. Ants as earthbound creatures are not ideal pollinators, but they can carry pollen over short distances.

Champaign, Illinois, USA

Formica integroides worker tending pine aphids. The ants obtain a large portion of their energy from symbiotic relationships with hemipterans such as these aphids.

Sagehen Creek, California, USA

A male thatch mound ant (Formica integroides) climbs sagebrush to launch himself on a morning mating flight in California's Sierra Nevada.

Sagehen Creek, California, USA

Formica integroides workers tending pine aphids. The ants obtain a large portion of their energy from symbiotic relationships with hemipterans such as these aphids.

Sagehen Creek, California, USA

Formica manni

Hallelujah Junction, California, USA

Formica incerta workers carry a pupa to safety after the photographer disturbs their nest.

Bell Smith Springs, Illinois, USA

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Keywords: nature insects pupa pupae formicidae formicinae worker ants formica incerta neoformica brood care

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Formica

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