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

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

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Portrait of Myrmecia nigrceps, the black-headed bull ant. Bull ants are among the largest ants in the world, some over an inch in length. 

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

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

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
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