Camponotus pennsylvanicus - eastern black carpenter ant (queen)
An eastern black carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) deep inside a rotting log.

Illinois, USA
Cerapachys (antennatus-group) worker.

Danum Valley Field Centre, Sabah Borneo
Camponotus caryae, one of the smallest carpenter ants in North America.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
Formica glacialis

South Bristol, New York, USA
Camponotus novaehollandiae

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
Dinoponera australis, posing on a page from William Morton Wheeler's classic 1910 text "Ants: their structure, development, and behavior".

Misiones, Argentina
Dinoponera australis, posing on a page from William Morton Wheeler's classic 1910 text "Ants: their structure, development, and behavior".

Misiones, Argentina
Leptogenys sp.

Venezuela
Dinoponera australis, posing on a page from William Morton Wheeler's classic 1910 text "Ants: their structure, development, and behavior".

Misiones, Argentina
Dinoponera australis, posing on a page from William Morton Wheeler's classic 1910 text "Ants: their structure, development, and behavior".

Misiones, Argentina
Dinoponera australis, posing on a page from William Morton Wheeler's classic 1910 text "Ants: their structure, development, and behavior".

Misiones, Argentina
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