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Ants have trash workers, too! Here, a Dorymyrmex brunneus sanitation worker carries the empty carcass of a consumed prey insect out to the colony's midden pile. Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Dorymyrmex reginicula (at left), a socially parasitic species, is harassed by a worker of its host Dorymyrmex elegans. Workers of the two species coexist in a single nest for a period after the parasite queen has assumed reproduction and before the last remaining host workers die off. The transition period is not entirely smooth, as evidenced by this aggressive interaction. Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Dorymyrmex reginicula (at left), a socially parasitic species, is harassed by a worker of its host Dorymyrmex elegans. Workers of the two species coexist in a single nest for a period after the parasite queen has assumed reproduction and before the last remaining host workers die off. The transition period is not entirely smooth, as evidenced by this aggressive interaction. Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Dorymyrmex reginicula (at left), a socially parasitic species, is harassed by a worker of its host Dorymyrmex elegans. Workers of the two species coexist in a single nest for a period after the parasite queen has assumed reproduction and before the last remaining host workers die off. The transition period is not entirely smooth, as evidenced by this aggressive interaction. Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Dorymyrmex reginicula (at left), a socially parasitic species, is harassed by a worker of its host Dorymyrmex elegans. Workers of the two species coexist in a single nest for a period after the parasite queen has assumed reproduction and before the last remaining host workers die off. The transition period is not entirely smooth, as evidenced by this aggressive interaction. Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Dorymyrmex thoracicus cone ants feeding on the remains of a beetle larva. Amaicha del Valle, Tucuman, Argentina
Dorymyrmex thoracicus worker emerges from the nest. Frías, Santiago del Estero, Argentina
A colony of Dorymyrmex thoracicus cone ants has discovered a beetle larva and arrive in large numbers to bring it back to their nest. Amaicha del Valle, Tucuman, Argentina
Ants have trash workers, too! Here, a Dorymyrmex brunneus sanitation worker carries the empty carcass of a consumed prey insect out to the colony's midden pile.

Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ants have trash workers, too! Here, a Dorymyrmex brunneus sanitation worker carries the empty carcass of a consumed prey insect out to the colony's midden pile. Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ants have trash workers, too! Here, a Dorymyrmex brunneus sanitation worker carries the empty carcass of a consumed prey insect out to the colony's midden pile.

Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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