Portrait of a Prolasius worker.

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia
Portrait of a Prolasius worker.

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia
Myrmecia nigrceps, the black-headed bull ant. The large eyes of these insects bestow excellent vision for an ant.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Bull ants are solitary foragers, hunting alone even though they live in colonies. Here, a worker Myrmecia nigriceps descends a tree trunk in a eucalypt woodland.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
The beautiful Rhytidoponera aspersa.

Bright, Victoria, Australia
Portrait of a Prolasius worker.

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia
Myrmecia pilosula is smaller than its bull ant relatives and can be identified by a silver-gray body with yellow antennae, mandibles, and forelegs.

Harrietville, Victoria, Australia
Myrmecia nigrceps, the black-headed bull ant. The large eyes of these insects bestow excellent vision for an ant.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Myrmecia pilosula is smaller than its bull ant relatives and can be identified by a silver-gray body with yellow antennae, mandibles, and forelegs.

Harrietville, Victoria, Australia
Myrmecia pilosula is smaller than its bull ant relatives and can be identified by a silver-gray body with yellow antennae, mandibles, and forelegs.

Harrietville, Victoria, Australia
Myrmecia pilosula is smaller than its bull ant relatives and can be identified by a silver-gray body with yellow antennae, mandibles, and forelegs.

Harrietville, Victoria, Australia
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