A Cyphomyrmex (rimosus-group sp.) worker tends to yeast globules in the fungus garden.

Mindo, Ecuador
Formica gnava foraging worker carrying a bark louse it has caught.

Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, USA
Acromyrmex versicolor desert leafcutter ant carrying a fragment of a mesquite seed pod.

Green Valley, Arizona, USA
Orectognathus versicolor.  The predatory mandibles of trap-jaw ants must also be used for delicate tasks around the nest.  Here, a worker transports a larva.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Monomorium rothsteini, worker removing a heavy stone from the nest.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Meranoplus unicolor.  An Australian harvester ant carries a seed back to her nest.

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
Orectognathus versicolor.  The predatory mandibles of trap-jaw ants must also be used for delicate tasks around the nest.  Here, a worker transports a larva.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Kalathomyrmex emeryi

Los Reartes, Córdoba, Argentina
Meranoplus unicolor.  An Australian harvester ant carries a seed back to her nest.

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
Meranoplus unicolor. An Australian harvester ant carries a seed back to her nest.

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
Meranoplus unicolor.  An Australian harvester ant carries a seed back to her nest.

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
Meranoplus unicolor. An Australian harvester ant carries a seed back to her nest.

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
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