Discothyrea mixta transporting a prey egg with a first-instar ant larva.

Kibale forest, Uganda
JTL-7912
Psalidomyrmex reichenspergeri

Kibale forest, Uganda
Polyrhachis militaris - golden spiny ant.

Kibale forest, Uganda
Pristomyrmex africanus

Kibale forest, Uganda
Stigmatomma worker ant shows her characteristically toothy mandibles, presumably an adaptation for capturing arthropod prey.

Kibale forest, Uganda
Tetramorium in the aculeatum group are unusually slender for the genus.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
A Camponotus (maculatus group) worker scavenges the carcass of a planthopper.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
Odontomachus rixosus

Cambodia (laboratory colony at the University of Illinois)
Ants won't often eat members of their own species, but they are happy to consume the dead bodies of other types of ants. Here, fiesty little Azteca ants cooperate to lug the remains of a leafcutter ant worker back to their nest, where it will be fed to the developing larvae.

Potrerillo, Tolima, Colombia
Odontomachus rixosus

Cambodia (laboratory colony at the University of Illinois)
Odontomachus rixosus

Cambodia (laboratory colony at the University of Illinois)
Odontomachus rixosus

Cambodia (laboratory colony at the University of Illinois)
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