Oecophylla smaragdina weaver ants have killed a trap-jaw ant and are cooperating to carry it up a tree branch to their nest. 

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
Oecophylla smaragdina weaver ants have killed a trap-jaw ant and are cooperating to carry it up a tree branch to their nest. 

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
Pachycondyla chinensis, the Asian needle ant, is a termite predator. Here, workers process a recently killed Reticulitermes worker.

Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Anelosimus social spiders cooperate to capture a grasshopper.

Jatun Sacha reserve, Napo, Ecuador
These Aphaenogaster lamellidens foragers have discovered a live centipede and are attempting to pull it from its burrow.

Dixon Springs, Illinois, USA
These Aphaenogaster lamellidens foragers have discovered a live centipede and are attempting to pull it from its burrow.

Dixon Springs, Illinois, USA
These Aphaenogaster lamellidens foragers have discovered a live centipede and are attempting to pull it from its burrow.

Dixon Springs, Illinois, USA
These Aphaenogaster lamellidens foragers have discovered a live centipede and are attempting to pull it from its burrow.

Dixon Springs, Illinois, USA
Oecophylla smaragdina weaver ants have killed a trap-jaw ant and are cooperating to carry it up a tree branch to their nest.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
Oecophylla smaragdina weaver ants have killed a trap-jaw ant and are cooperating to carry it up a tree branch to their nest. 

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
Oecophylla smaragdina weaver ants have killed a trap-jaw ant and are cooperating to carry it up a tree branch to their nest.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
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