The beautiful Rhytidoponera aspersa.

Bright, Victoria, Australia
The beautiful Rhytidoponera aspersa.

Bright, Victoria, Australia
A minor worker of the strikingly-colored Cephalotes umbraculatus drinks from a water droplet.

Archidona, Napo, Ecuador
A Meranoplus shield ant carries a bit of soil from a nest excavation.

Peebinga Conservation Park, South Australia
Meranoplus sp. shield ant.

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
Pogonomyrmex rastratus

Amaicha del Valle, Tucumán, Argentina
Meranoplus sp. shield ant.

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
A nocturnal Meranoplus shield ant forages on a Eucalyptus trunk.

Poochera, South Australia
A Meranoplus shield ant carries a bit of soil from a nest excavation.

Peebinga Conservation Park, South Australia
The beautiful Rhytidoponera aspersa.

Bright, Victoria, Australia
The beautiful Rhytidoponera aspersa.

Bright, Victoria, Australia
The beautiful Rhytidoponera aspersa.

Bright, Victoria, Australia
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