An early season worker of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera, covered with dandelion pollen.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
An early season worker of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera, covered with dandelion pollen.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
Young assassin bugs are often ant mimics. This is a first-instar wheel bug, Arilus cristatus.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
Tetramorium (aculeatum - group) foragers meet along a trail at night.

Kibale forest, Uganda
Discothyrea mixta belongs to an African lineage with an unusually pronounced frontal lobe on the head.

Kibale forest, Uganda
JTL-7912
Leptanilla worker cleaning her antennae.

Kibale forest, Uganda
Tetramorium (aculeatum - group) foragers meet along a trail at night.

Kibale forest, Uganda
A tropical leaf beetle, Stolas sp. (Chrysomelidae)

Armenia, Belize
Crematogaster pilosa

Virginia, USA
An early season worker of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera, covered with dandelion pollen.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
An early season worker of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera, covered with dandelion pollen.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
An early season worker of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera, covered with dandelion pollen.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
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