Camponotus suffusus carrying a pupae through their colony's underground galleries.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Camponotus suffusus carrying a pupae through their colony's underground galleries.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Camponotus suffusus carrying a pupae through their colony's underground galleries.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Camponotus suffusus carrying a pupae through their colony's underground galleries.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
An eastern black carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) deep inside a rotting log.

Illinois, USA
An underground trail of thief ants, Solenopsis molesta

Urbana, Illinois, USA
Solenopsis sp., thief ant nest.

Portal, Arizona, USA
Linepithema micans running through tunnels in their underground nest.

Tafí del Valle, Tucumán, Argentina
A half meter underground, a small colony of Mycesoritis hartmanni cultivates their fungus in a garden hung from the chamber ceiling.

Smithville, Texas, USA
An eastern black carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) deep inside a rotting log.

Illinois, USA
An eastern black carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) deep inside a rotting log.

Illinois, USA
An eastern black carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) deep inside a rotting log.

Illinois, USA
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