Pseudomyrmex gracilis is a large, active, and alert ant found from the southern United States to northern Argentina.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Pseudomyrmex gracilis is a large, active, and alert ant found from the southern United States to northern Argentina.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Breaking open a hollow twig in the Florida scrub reveals a nest of the twig ant Pseudomyrmex gracilis.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Camponotus semitestaceus

Mojave National Preserve, California, USA
Camponotus ocreatus, with pupae

Portal, Arizona, USA
Ants, like butterflies, have complete metamorphosis.  They pass through egg, larva, and pupa stages prior to reaching adulthood.  Pseudomyrmex gracilis.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
The life cycle of  the twig ant Pseudomyrmex gracilis.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Pseudomyrmex gracilis, with larva.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Camponotus vicinus

Blodgett Forest, El Dorado Co., California, USA
Pseudomyrmex gracilis is a large, active, and alert ant found from the southern United States to northern Argentina.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Pseudomyrmex gracilis is a large, active, and alert ant found from the southern United States to northern Argentina.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Pseudomyrmex gracilis is a large, active, and alert ant found from the southern United States to northern Argentina.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
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