Raspberry flowers provide nectar to attract flighted pollinators like bees and flies, but ants sometimes sneak in to steal the bounty. (Nylanderia bourbonica) Orlando, Florida, USA - Alex Wild Photography - Insect Photography

Nylanderia

is a genus of small formicine ants with a worldwide distribution. Most species are generalist foragers that nest opportunistically in soil, leaf litter, and rotting wood. Human commerce has spread several pest species around the globe.

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Nylanderia bourbonica is a tramp species that has spread with commerce to warmer regions around the world.

West Palm Beach, Florida, USA

Raspberry flowers provide nectar to attract flighted pollinators like bees and flies, but ants sometimes sneak in to steal the bounty. (Nylanderia bourbonica)

Orlando, Florida, USA

Nylanderia faisonensis can be diagnosed in the southern United States by its dark color, shiny thorax and abdomen, and contrastingly light-colored mid- and hind- coxae.

Gainesville, Florida, USA

All the immature stages of ant development (eggs, larvae, and pupae) in the brood nest of Nylanderia faisonensis.

Gainesville, Florida, USA

Worker Nylanderia faisonensis scramble to carry brood to safety when the photographer disturbs their nest.

Gainesville, Florida, USA

Nylanderia faisonensis, worker with larvae in the brood nest.

Gainesville, Florida, USA

Nylanderia fulva

Buenos Aires, Argentina

A Nylanderia worker tends to a scale insect for honeydew.

Morretes, Paraná, Brazil

The taxonomy of the hairy crazy ant Nylanderia sp. is not yet settled, and the pest species is referred to variously as Nylanderia fulva, Nylanderia pubens, and Nylanderia nr. pubens.

Morretes, Paraná, Brazil

Raspberry flowers provide nectar to attract flighted pollinators like bees and flies, but ants sometimes sneak in to steal the bounty. (Nylanderia bourbonica)

Orlando, Florida, USA

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Keywords: ants introduced species nectar robbing paratrechina nylanderia bourbonica

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