Ants have trash workers, too! Here, a Dorymyrmex brunneus sanitation worker carries the empty carcass of a consumed prey insect out to the colony's midden pile.

Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Kalathomyrmex emeryi

Los Reartes, Córdoba, Argentina
Kalathomyrmex emeryi

Los Reartes, Córdoba, Argentina
Kalathomyrmex emeryi worker removing a pebble excavated from deep within her nest.

Los Reartes, Córdoba, Argentina
Kalathomyrmex emeryi

Los Reartes, Córdoba, Argentina
Ants have trash workers, too! Here, a Dorymyrmex brunneus sanitation worker carries the empty carcass of a consumed prey insect out to the colony's midden pile.

Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ants have trash workers, too! Here, a Dorymyrmex brunneus sanitation worker carries the empty carcass of a consumed prey insect out to the colony's midden pile.

Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ants have trash workers, too! Here, a Dorymyrmex brunneus sanitation worker carries the empty carcass of a consumed prey insect out to the colony's midden pile.

Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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