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alexwild > Portrait of a horse fly.

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alexwild > Azteca alfari - Cecropia Ants, Panama.

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alexwild > A Dinoponera forages through William Morton Wheeler's 1910 Classic "The Ants".

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alexwild > Orthodera ministralis is the common green garden mantid of Australia. Here a late-instar nymph grooms herself.
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alexwild > Honeypot ant workers (Myrmecocystus species) serve as living storage containers. Their bodies swell up with food, which they can regurgitate to their nestmates on demand. Captive colony, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

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alexwild > Among the most striking elements of the Australian insect fauna are the large, leggy spider ants of the genus Leptomyrmex. Here a Leptomyrmex unicolor ant checks out a bit of potential food she has found on the rainforest floor.

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alexwild > Citronella ants (Lasius californicus) tend to mealybugs in their underground chambers. The mealybugs secrete a sweet honeydew that the ants consume, and in turn the ants move the mealybugs around and protect them from predators.

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alexwild > Entomologists use many tools to sample insects. Here, a generator-powered blacklight attracts night-flying insects in the Santa Rita mountains of southeastern Arizona.

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Portrait of a horse fly.

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> Portrait of a horse fly.

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Portrait of a horse fly.

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