Cephalotes clypeatus, focus-stacked composite image of a preserved museum specimen.

Mbaracayú forest reserve, Paraguay
Eciton hamatum army ant soldier. This portrait is a composite of 32 photographs taken at different focal depths and stacked to produce an artificially sharp image. 

Armenia, Belize
Eciton hamatum army ant soldier. This portrait is a composite of 32 photographs taken at different focal depths and stacked to produce an artificially sharp image. 

Armenia, Belize
Portrait of Cephalotes clypeatus, the golden turtle ant. This image is a composite of about 20 photographs taken at different focal depths and digitally combined.

Mbaracayú forest reserve, Paraguay
Cephalotes clypeatus, focus-stacked composite image of a preserved museum specimen.

Mbaracayú forest reserve, Paraguay
Eciton hamatum army ant soldier. This portrait is a composite of 64 photographs taken at different focal depths and stacked to produce an artificially sharp image. The unusual single-lens eyes are unique to this genus and may be the result of re-evolved vision from blind ancestors.

Armenia, Belize
Eciton hamatum army ant soldier. This portrait is a composite of 32 photographs taken at different focal depths and stacked to produce an artificially sharp image. 

Armenia, Belize
Leptogenys camerunensis

Kibale forest, Uganda
Myrmicaria natalensis

Kibale forest, Uganda
Cephalotes clypeatus, focus-stacked composite image of a preserved museum specimen.

Mbaracayú forest reserve, Paraguay
Cephalotes clypeatus, focus-stacked composite image of a preserved museum specimen.

Mbaracayú forest reserve, Paraguay
Cephalotes clypeatus, focus-stacked composite image of a preserved museum specimen.

Mbaracayú forest reserve, Paraguay
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all images and text © Alex Wild 2001-2013